Sad news: soprano Rosanna Carteri has died at the age of 89.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9_yAQK3uu4
Texas Opera Alliance launches the Teen Opera Club of Texas.
TEXAS—October 27, 2020—The Texas Opera Alliance (TOA) is proud to announce the launch of the Teen Opera Club of Texas. In early October, Austin Opera (AO), The Dallas Opera (TDO), Fort Worth Opera (FWO), Houston Grand Opera (HGO), and OPERA San Antonio...
November updates for LSO St Luke’s autumn concert series.
Conductor Susanna Mälkki has had to withdraw from the LSO concert on 5 November due to travel restrictions. The LSO is very grateful to Stephanie Childress [pictured] for agreeing to step in at short notice to conduct the concert. The programme remains unchanged....
50/50 in Munich; full-on in Vienna.
Local Covid-rules apply. For examples, it seems that in Munich the current concert situation requires an orchestra to field no more than fifty musicians playing to an audience of no more than that number of spectators … whereas, in Vienna – a four-hour high-speed...
Riccardo Muti writes an open letter to President Conte appealing for Italian theatres and concert-halls to be reopened.
"Dear President Conte,While understanding your difficult responsibility in this long and tragic period for our country, with the urgent need to safeguard the health, the supreme good, of our fellow citizens, I feel the need to make a heartfelt appeal.Closing concert...
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Wigmore Hall – Chloë Hanslip & Danny Driver play Beethoven & Franck [Wigmore livestream]
Monday, October 26, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Back in my Guildford days during the late-eighties/early-nineties all talk was about the local Hanslip family and their two prodigious daughters – Virginia, piano, and Chloë, violin, then not yet...
Scottish Chamber Orchestra announces streamed performances for the remainder of the 2020 autumn season.
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra continues its commitment to bringing world-class music to audiences at home throughout the rest of 2020, with ten streamed concerts from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth and St Andrews The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) today announces ten...
GLYNDEBOURNE’S AUTUMN SEASON CONTINUES WITH A SEMI-STAGED CONCERT VERSION OF THE MAGIC FLUTE.
The next event in Glyndebourne’s autumn season of indoor events opens Sunday 1 November - a semi-staged concert version of The Magic Flute featuring an outstanding cast of young singers. It follows the successful re-opening of the theatre with a new...
Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert.
There has been speculation, with Covid uppermost, that the 2021 edition of this transmitted-worldwide event, Riccardo Muti conducting it this time around, will not take place. A glance at the orchestra's website......