press release: We are sorry to announce that due to newly-imposed travel restrictions, Sonya Yoncheva has had to withdraw from The Royal Opera: Live in Concert performance this Friday 4 September. We are delighted to announce that…
View More Covent Garden is hit by ‘newly-imposed travel restrictions’Месец: септември 2020
Major piano series is declared unsustainable
The Concertgebouw’s Masterpianists series, which has run for 33 years, has been called off by the organisers for a simple reason: ‘A maximum of 350…
View More Major piano series is declared unsustainableDIE VÖGEL am 31. Oktober, 05., 08., 12. und 15. November 2020 sowie am 20. Juli 2021
In den Vorstellungen von Die Vögel am 31. Oktober, 05., 08., 12. und 15. November 2020 sowie am 20. Juli 2021 wird Yajie Zhang die…
View More DIE VÖGEL am 31. Oktober, 05., 08., 12. und 15. November 2020 sowie am 20. Juli 2021DIE VÖGEL am 31. Oktober, 05., 08., 12. und 15. November 2020 sowie am 20. Juli 2021
In den Vorstellungen von Die Vögel am 31. Oktober, 05., 08., 12. und 15. November 2020 sowie am 20. Juli 2021 wird Yajie Zhang die…
View More DIE VÖGEL am 31. Oktober, 05., 08., 12. und 15. November 2020 sowie am 20. Juli 2021The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (169): Double strings
Rattle and the LSO have put me in a VW mood.
View More The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (169): Double stringsTwo-job kid pitches for Jansons role
The young Finn Klaus Mäkelä, already music director in Oslo and Paris, has thrown his hat in for the Munich vacancy. Mäkelä, 24, will replace…
View More Two-job kid pitches for Jansons roleMunich boosts audience from 200 to 500
The Bavarian State Opera has been allowed to admit 500 ticket holders to the world premiere of “7 Deaths of Maria Callas” this week. Booking…
View More Munich boosts audience from 200 to 500Curtains in Prague as National Theatre quarantines its chorus
Our colleagues at Opera Plus report that all 62 members of the National Theater chorus have been quarantined as of yesterday on the advice of…
View More Curtains in Prague as National Theatre quarantines its chorusDeath of a sought-after Hans Sachs
The Austrian baritone Rudolf Holtenau has died in Vienna, aged 88. With a career based mostly in Germany, he sang major Wagner roles in the…
View More Death of a sought-after Hans SachsExclusive: another artists’ agency makes deep cuts
We hear there have been many layoffs at Intermusica, the London-based international agency that represents Yuja Wng, Lisa Davidsen and other rising talents. Among…
View More Exclusive: another artists’ agency makes deep cuts