Royal Opera House announces two new Friday Premieres: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Kenneth MacMillan’s Elite Syncopations.
The Royal Opera House is delighted to continue its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme, featuring online broadcasts that can be accessed by audiences around the world for just £3. Join us on Friday 5 March at 7pm GMT as we...
Longborough Festival Opera to stage three productions in Circus Big Top this season.
Longborough Festival Opera has introduced a new venue for 2021: the Big Top. Three of the festival’s 2021 productions will take place in this new venue: Cosi fan tutte, The Return of Ulysses and The Cunning Little Vixen. The...
Many Happy Returns to soprano Dame Emma Kirkby, 72 today.
A stirring piece of music…
... La Marche Lorraine by French composer and conductor Louis Ganne (1862-1923, pictured), a favourite piece of my father's, Donald Keith Anderson, who would have been 95 today. The recording linked to below is splendid, but alas the performers are not revealed on...
Berliner Philharmoniker, Feb 27: Camilla Nylund replaces Diana Damrau.
Due to the current Covid-19 regulations, Diana Damrau unable to travel to Berlin for theconcert on 27 February conducted by Christian Thielemann. Camilla Nylund [pictured] to stand in.Due to an asymptomatic Corona case in her immediate family and the quarantine...
Lincoln Center Announces Restart Stages.
NEW YORK, NY (February 25, 2021) – Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts today announced Restart Stages, a sweeping initiative that will create 10 outdoor performance and rehearsal spaces—an outdoor performing arts center—as well as other outdoor civic venues to...
The OSM appoints Kent Nagano Conductor Emeritus.
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) is pleased and proud to announce that today, Kent Nagano receives the honorary title of Conductor Emeritus of the Orchestra. Appointed by the Board of Directors, he becomes the third Music Director...
MU and The Ivors Academy welcome evidence given by Amazon Music, Apple Music and Spotify to streaming inquiry.
The MU and The Ivors Academy were pleased to hear three of the music streaming giants commit to a dialogue with artists and their representatives about how revenue is shared out in the current streaming system, shed light on major label dominance and confirm that...
English National Opera announces new staging of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
Directed by Richard Jones [pictured] and conducted by Martyn Brabbins, The Valkyrie will form the first part of a complete Ring Cycle over the next five years. English National Opera (ENO) is to bring Wagner’s Ring Cycle to the London Coliseum, starting...