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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTWe can safely say that Clara Butt dwarfed most every other singer of her time. The photo shows her embarking across the Atlantic in 1907 with his family in her wake. Which was more magnificent, the P &;O liner or the diva /?&nb...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Slipped Disc
This just in from the rising crossover violinist, Charles Yang: ‘I am so so so thankful to be alive at this moment. My rental car was hit by a truck today while I was on my way to LA from San Francisco. I am so thankful for the peo... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Slipped Disc
In the thick of writing a 2,000-word analysis of the great man’s words and music, ahead of his 80th birthday next month, I am poleaxed by the news that he’s about to release a new album. Surely he can’t go further than ... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Music Genre: ClassicalThis summer, The New Yorker has thrown open the gates to much of its archive. Read these five classical music profiles and essays for free while you still can.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukRoyal Albert Hall, London Mannered during the Mozart and Strauss, the Danish conductor was most at home with his idol, Nielsen The first of Thomas Søndergård 's two Proms with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales placed Strau...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletMatthew Worth and Daniel Okulitch One of America's most innovative opera companies, the Fort Worth Opera has collaborated with the American Lyric Theater to produce an opera based on President John F. Kennedy's final twelve hours. The op...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicMonteverdi - Vespers for the Feast of Saint Mark ; Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano; Naive Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 29 2014 Star rating: 5.0 Imaginative reconstruction using music from Monteverdi's Selva Morale This new...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Balletby Melissa Wimbish Great singing leads to my vocabulary […]
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Sinfini
Comedian Rob Newman shares his experience of Edinburgh 2014 -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Laurie Niles has conducted one of her extraordinarily revealing interviews. This one is with the great violinist Aaron Rosand and it explores, among other things, the differing physiques and techniques of outstanding performers. Rosand h... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Slipped Disc
This is the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmuk in the south of Damascus, which has been pounded to rubble by President Assad’s army for the start of the Syrian insurrection. There have been innumerable child deaths (no support rall... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Declassified papers of a KGB defector have named Steve Carl Stevenson, an Australian violinist of Bulgarian parentage, as a spy. Born in Perth in 1947, he acted for the Bulgarians from 1966 and for the Russians from 1973. Codenamed ̵... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Dame Katherine Ollerenshaw, a former lord mayor of Manchester, was the driving force behind the creation of the Royal Northern College of Music. Katherine (pictured left) was no mere politician. Deaf from the age of eight, she read maths... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Blog medici.tvD-7! Annecy Classic Festival is quickly approaching… In order to wait patiently until D-Day, medici.tv and Annecy Classic Festival invite you to take part in a prize competition! Ready, set, go! Today, try to win the first prize: t...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Shocking scenes from the Theatre Museum in Athens, which has been shut for lack of funds and is in danger of a roof collapse. A model of the dressing room of the greatest Greek singer that ever lived has been abandoned to vermin, termite... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Slipped Disc
This is Flemish Opera’s placard for Strauss’s Elektra, opening September 9. Donch just love that Fanta can? So artistically placed. -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicOn 15 October 2014, Rosalind Plowright will be giving a masterclass at Cadogan Hall, Chelsea. The masterclass will be part of the Divas and Scholars Study Day . In the morning I will be lecturing on Puccini, his contemporaries and Verism...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Maxim Gershunoff, the veteran New York manager and presenter, reflects on Peter Gelb’s early career. We cannot vouch for the pinpoint accuracy of every last detail, but the general picture is correct. Mr Gershunoff was writing in r... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music'Everything about you' (2013) by Lyndsey Housden Part of the London Concord Singer's foray into Maastricht ( covered here ) included a visit to Marres House for Contemporary Culture to see part of 'Undertones' an exhibition examining wha...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicAlistair Shelton-Smith, Christopher Diffey and Mark Beesley in Edward Lambert's The Catfish Conundrum photo Claire Shovelton Our visit to Tete a Tete: The Opera Festival at King's Place on Sunday 11 August 2014 started as soon as we ente...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Slipped Disc
This Lombardy house in Caprino Bergamesco marks two important moments in the composer’s life. He came here in 1884 to visit his friend Ferdinando Fontana. Two years later he sought refuge here with his pregnant lover, Elvira Bontur... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Classical Voice North AmericaBy Richard S. Ginell DIGITAL REVIEW – In just 52 minutes, Marco Capalbo's new film summarizes how Stravinsky's stay in Southern California prompted a rebirth of his creative energies even though he was rejected by the Hollywood movie ind...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Peninsula Reviews
Connie Fortunato Wow! When someone’s passion shows, it really shows, and especially when you are Connie Fortunato directing the summer Celebration Choir! This community group comes together for six weeks of rehearsal in July and August w... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalBellini Norma. Soloists, Chorus, Anders-Per Jonsson (chorus master), Jacob Piamorex Moscovicz (piano). Dala-FlodaChurch, Dalecarlia. 10.8.2014 (GF) Production: Direction and costume design: Mathias Clason Narrator: Birgit Carlstén ...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Classics TodayThe justification for this disc is incomprehensible. It’s only fort-five minutes long—there is no coupling. Not that you’d want one. This is an utterly forgettable performance. From the flabby, or shall we say “Rubenesque” portrait of th...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalEdinburgh International Festival 2014 (4) – Brahms, Shostakovich: Nicola Benedetti and Friends, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 11.8.2014 (SRT) Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 Shostakovich: Piano Quintet Nicola Benedetti (violin) Susie Chen (violi...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalGlyndebourne Festival 2014 – Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Filmed ‘live’ at the Glyndebourne Theatre and seen at the Barbican Cinema, London, 10.8.2014. (...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalStravinsky, Haydn, Mendelssohn: Peter Otto (violin), Cleveland Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane (conductor) Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 08.10.2014 (MSJ) Stravinsky: Suite from Pulcinella Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 1 in C majo...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Music and VisionRichard Strauss at Salzburg, with Giuseppe Pennisi
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
The second installment of Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring takes us to an oil drilling station in Azerbaijan. As in Das Rheingold, Aleksandar Denic’s complex revolving set does not admit changes. Therefore, Sieglinde and H...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: This is Part 1 in a two-part interview with violinist Aaron Rosand. Click here to read Part 2 . Part 1 Aaron Rosand talks about his beginnings on the violin, his troubles with Isaac Stern, his mentors Leon Sametini and E...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: This is Part 2 in a two-part interview with Aaron Rosand. Click here to read Part 1. Part 1 Aaron Rosand talks about his beginnings on the violin, his troubles with Isaac Stern, his mentors Leon Sametini and Efrem Zimbal...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletSan Francisco Conservatory of Music alumna Julie Adams (pictured left) was one of the winners of Met Council Auditions this year. She sang the role of Blanche DuBois in André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire as a participant of the...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletNew pointe shoes always take some getting used to, especially when you change models. You may even find that certain styles make it more challenging to balance on flat. According to research from the University of Wolverhampton in the UK...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletThe neat thing Verdi does in La traviata‘s Act I is Alfredo and Violetta’s duet (with extension) Un di, felice, eterea +E strano…folie! It’s a truly great musical illustration of trying to resist falling in love &...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicSakari Oramo Stravinsky Oedipus Rex , Beethoven, Brett Dean; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo; BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Aug 7 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Prom 28: Oramo's first Proms outing - Stravinsky's...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicYvonne Howard and Joseph Wolverton photo credit Fritz Curzon Bellini Norma ; Yvonne Howard, Joseph Wolverton, Heather Shipp, conductor Dane Lam; Opera Holland Park Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Aug 8 2014 Star rating: 4.5 Thrillingl...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicKarina Gauvin as Armida photo Robbie Jack Handel Rinaldo ; Karina Gauvin, Iestyn Davies, Christina Landshamer, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenmment, cond. Ottavio Dantone, direct. Robert Carsen; Glyndebourne Festival Opera Reviewed by ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalProms Saturday Matinee no.2 – C.P.E. Bach, Birtwistle, Honegger, Davies, and Sibelius: Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 9.8.2014 (MB) C.P.E. Bach – Symphony in B...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalProm 28:Beethoven, Brett Dean, Stavinsky: Francesco D’Orazio (electric violin), Soloists, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus (chorus master: Stephen Jackson), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 7....
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukCadogan Hall, London Peter Maxwell Davies's Sinfonia, a powerful and rarely performed work, was the highlight of a wide-ranging programme Based in Rovaniemi, Finland, just a few miles south of the Arctic Circle, the Lapland Chamber Orche...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from ArtsBeat» Classical MusicThe Metropolitan Opera’s general manager, Peter Gelb, has threatened to lock out workers at the opera house if they do not agree to concessions.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalEdinburgh International Festival 2014 (3) – Brahms, Schumann, Webern, Beethoven: Lars Vogt (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 10.8.2014 (SRT) Brahms: Tragic Overture Schumann: Symphon...
