Месец: септември 2019

Jakub Hrůša has posted news of the death of his conducting teacher, Professor Radomil Eliška. A provincial music director in Karlovy Vary for 30 years,…

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Our good friend Leonard Slatkin is 75 today. He spans three eras of American music – the years when Hollywood depended on orchestras, the decades…

View More A hard-working maestro pitches in on his 75th birthday

The outspoken US soprano Jamie Barton, in conversation today with Fiona Maddocks: You’ve revealed you’ll be wearing the bisexual pride colours of lavender, pink and…

View More Bisexual pride will rule Britannia at BBC’s Last Night of the Proms

The American soprano, who accused various critics of reviewing her body rather than her voice, has named the main alleged culprits. In an interview with…

View More Kathryn Lewek names her body-shamers

The outgoing sovrintendente says he had been hoping to end his career in Milan. However, ‘there was a member of the supervisory board who fought…

View More Alexander Pereira: One person blocked me at La Scala

High on the hills, a lonely goatherd might have wondered what the fuss was all about. The Salzburg Festival rose to its feet last night…

View More Salzburg Festival closes with 15-minute Domingo ovation

The tenor Richard Conrad, who caught the ear of Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne and sang with them on Decca’s Age of Bel Canto, has…

View More Boston laments a Sutherland-Horne partner

Handel: Jephtha – Allan Clayton, Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Photo BBC/Chris Christodoulou) Handel Jephtha; Allan Clayton, Jeanine De Bique, Hilary Summers, Tim Mead, Scottish Chamber Orchestra,…

View More A very human drama: Allan Clayton as Handel’s Jephtha at the BBC Proms