Study Reveals the Vaccination Conundrum Facing Orchestras.
"Results of a new survey of potential audience members about their willingness to return to live events make for uncomfortable reading for organizations hoping to get back to normal anytime soon. A great deal appears to hinge on mask wearing policies and the idea of...
Aspen Music Festival Opera Director Dies Hours Before Performance.
"Aspen Music Festival dedicated a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute to its director, Edward Berkeley, who had been found unresponsive by a colleague at home in Aspen. The news was announced from the stage, moments before the performance was due to begin."...
Local Government Bars Domingo from Singing in Spain.
"Plácido Domingo has enjoyed some high-profile support of late, but now a Spanish provincial government has barred its regional orchestra from accompanying the veteran tenor-turned baritone at a music festival in September citing the singer’s alleged history of sexual...
First period album from Nicola Benedetti on Decca Classics is No.1 in the Official Classical Artist Chart & Specialist Classical Chart.
Grammy award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti’s new Baroque album is today No. 1 in both the Official Classical Artist Chart and the Specialist Classical Chart following its releases on Decca Classics on Friday 16 July. Baroque is the...
BBC Proms: Updates to the published programme.
Clarke Peters to lead The Golden Age of Broadway Prom Updates and amendments to the published programme On Saturday 31 July, a star-studded cast led by Clarke Peters (The Wire, Chicago and Guys and Dolls) will join the BBC Concert...
Riga Jurmala Music Festival modifies the programme for its second weekend, August 6-8.
The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra withdraws due to COVID-19; Mikhail Pletnev [pictured] steps in with a rare all-Chopin recital and a chamber music encounter with cellist Mischa Maisky and violinist Daniel Lozakovich The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra...
Franz Berwald 225.
Born Stockholm July 23, 1796. Here is Berwald's wonderful Sinfonie singulière (Symphony 3; 1845). Whoever posted this recording managed to omit the performers! Comments added suggest that Okko Kamu is conducting, which means it's the Helsingborg SO on Naxos. It's a...
Salzburg Festival Terrace Talk: Don Giovanni.
Director Romeo Castellucci and conductor Teodor Currentzis at the Terrace Talk Don Giovanni. Photos: SF/Anne Zeuner (SF, 23 July 2021) Love is the greatest value in Don Giovanni’s life. To conductor Teodor Currentzis, the fact that he is willing to betray, rape,...
Caramoor’s Fall-Spring season in Music Room, Oct 1-May 22.
With expanding audiences and a lineup that continues to go from strength to strength each summer, Caramoor also remains a hub for musical and artistic exploration all year round. The 2021–22 Fall-Spring season, presented indoors amid the paintings...