- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Sinfini Music
Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani plays everything from Bach to Reich
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
The amazing young harpist Noël Wan, winner of the Carmel Music Society’s Instrumental Competition last year, will be sharing her extraordinary virtuosity and charm this coming Sunday at 3:00 pm in Carmel’s Sunset Center. Admi... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Michael Braunfels, whose father Walter was suppressed in Hitler’s Germany and ignored for decades after, has died in Cologne, aged 98. Michael, a pianist, was a renowned Schubert interpreter. He did much to restore his father̵... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe National Dubai's World Classical Music Series wraps up with Edwin Crossley-Mercer The National Dubai's World Classical Music Series wraps up on May 29 with a performance by globetrotting opera star Edwin Crossley-Mercer. The ...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalSamuel Adams, Mozart, Bartók: Alexander Barantschik (violin), Jonathan Vinocour (viola), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 22.5.2015 (HS) Samuel Adams: Radial Play Moz...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Placido Domingo has pulled out of this week’s Traviata for family reasons. He explains: I am very sorry to have to cancel my upcoming performance of La Traviata in London on Thursday, May 28th. I am still in Boston and will remain ... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsNew York Times Classical Music This Week: Schubert, Bloland and Lip-Synching 'Salome' New York Times Greetings, classical music fans. Memorial Day may be behind us, but that doesn't mean the season is wrapping up. Quite the c...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Richard Page, principal bass clarinet with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 2014, has died of brain cancer, aged 66. A popular man in the orchestra, he was also a busy and influential teacher. Our sympathies to his loved on... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
A glimmer of light and happiness from Bologna, where the new US-Italian president of Bologna Football Club, Joseph Tacopina, has launched a US fund-raising campaign on behalf of Teatro Comunale di Bologna. ‘I love the town. I love ... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalMemoriam (In Memory of Memory): MamLuft&Co. Dance, Jeanne Mam-Luft (artistic director), Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, Ohio. 22.5.2015 (RDA) Memoriam (In Memory of Memory) The company: Delia Constantino, Steven Evans, Clint...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Ranking educational institutions on merit is never an exact science. We’ve published a few such attempts before. But this latest list from the Guardian newspaper of the ‘top’ places in Britain to acquire a music educati... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical Music Warner Music acquires Polskie Nagrania Classical Music The Polskie Nagrania catalogue contains 36,000 tracks from local archives (including pop, rock, folk, classical and jazz music ). The deal includes music by Witold Lu...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTMany new directions ahead for Garsington Opera at Wormsley ! This year's season begins with Mozart Così fan tutte , the start of a new series of Mozart operas which build upon Garsington's formidable reputation as a Rossini house. ...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical Music Garsington announces collaboration with Rambert Dance Company Classical Music Baldwin said: ' Music and cross art-form collaboration have always been an integral part of Rambert's work and a particular passion of ...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from JDCMBSome very welcome news yesterday from the Proms, which has appointed a new director at long last. And it's not a BBC insider with an axe. It's David Pickard of Glyndebourne - a charismatic, well-liked, forward-thinking, online-aware guy ...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicThe Ligeti Quartet (last heard in Steve Reich's Three Tales ) is performing a programme entitled Enlightenment at Hoxton Basement , 18 Hoxton Street, London N1 6NG on Sunday 31 May 2015. Organised by New Dots , the organisation which aim...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Classics TodayWriting a string quartet is one of the hardest things there is (you know if you’ve tried it), and after the defining works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven only a handful of composers have succeeded in producing works of equivalent ...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicDonizetti, Poulenc, Messager, Puccini, Massenet, Rimsky-Korsakov, Verdi, Mozart, Rossini; Ilona Domnich, Leo Nucci, Southbank Sinfonia, Simon Over Reviewed by Robert Hugill on May 20 2015 Star rating: 4.0 Attractive and well thought out ...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Classical music - Google Newsnewsnet5.com Indian classical music and tennis help student prepare for the bee newsnet5.com Shiv Dewan a 12-year-old seventh-grader from North Canton, Ohio, plays Indian classical music on a sitar, a string instrument, and the tabla, a ...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicBarenboim-Maene Concert Grand (c) Chris Maene During a trip to Siena in 2011, Daniel Barenboim played Franz Liszt's restored piano, and he was struck by the differences in sound between a modern concert grand (built with diagonal crossed...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: On Tuesday, superstar violinist Sarah Chang returned to her alma mater, The Juilliard School, to conduct the first master class in the 2015 Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies and to talk with participants about h...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Emily Hogstad: This weekend at the Minnesota Orchestra was a love fest. Love. What a loaded, completely inexplicable word. You can love institutions. You can love art. You can love people as friends or as lovers. Or as both. Your love...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalJ.S. Bach, Partita 2: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Boris Charmatz, Amandine Beyer, Rosas, Sadler’s Wells, London, 22.5.2015 (J.O’D) Dancers:Boris Charmatz, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Violin: Amandine Beyer Choreography: Anne Teresa De K...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Music and VisionRed Priest's 'Handel in the Wind', heard by Howard Smith. '... Piers Adams riding the surf at breakneck speed.'
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Sinfini Music
Locks of the composers' hair could fetch thousands of pounds - Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalAyres, Peter Pan: (Company Premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Erik Nielsen (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 23.5.2015 (GPu) Cast: Peter Pan: Iestyn Morris Wendy: Marie Arnet John: Nicholas...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalBeethoven and Brahms: Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Sally Matthews (soprano), Matthias Goerne (baritone), , London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding (conductor), Barbican Hall, London, 24.5.2015 (CS) Beethoven: Vi...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseRussell Platt on Nico Muhly and Anwen Crawford on female rock critics, both on the New Yorker website.
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalMozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute): Soloists, Staatsopernchor, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden / Jonathan Darlington (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden, 23.5.2015(MC) Cast: Sarastro: Michael Eder Tamino: Tomislav Muzek Speaker: Ma...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from New York Concert Review, Inc.
Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents A High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass Navo Middle School Varsity Treble Choir: Mary Margaret Sadler, director; Denise Stephens, accompanist Tim Sharp, composer/conductor The Chuck N... - Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from Classics TodayOn Monday, May 18th, 2015, at a ceremony at Yale School of Music, Naxos Chairman and owner Klaus Heymann was presented with the prestigious Samuel Simons Sanford Award. Previous winners include Yo-Yo Ma, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Ster...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukConceived in 2011, the Barenboim piano has taken 18 months and 4,000 people hours of work to build – and may one day go into wider production Continue reading...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from Seen and Heard International. Hindemith Cardillac Soloists, Estonian National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Vello Pähn (conductor). Estonian National Opera, Tallinn 14.5.2015. Premiere (GF) Cast: Cardillac, the goldsmith: Rauno Elp Cardillac’s daughter: Tamara Gallo ...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from - Classical RSS FeedThe appointment of Glyndebourne general director David Pickard as the new head of the Proms has surprised many. Widely expected to be a BBC insider – possibly one ready to wield an axe – instead, Pickard’s appointment appears to signal a...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalA New Opera: The Heart of Jussi Björling 26.5.2015 (GF) This summer a new opera about Swedish tenor Jussi Björling will be premiered. It is based on journalist Yrsa Stenius’s book Tills vingen brister (2002), available in English t...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre 's Huis Clos opened (heh) in Paris. - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Adult Ballerina ProjectA couple of years ago, I held a few Twitter chats with some of the adult ballerinas I met on Twitter. I want to hold another one, and right now I just want to get a good idea of when might be a good time (once I get a general idea, IR...
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from operaramblings
M’dea Undone; music by John Harris , libretto by Marjorie Chan, opened in the Holcim Gallery at the Evergreen Brickworks last night in a production by Tim Albery. My review, still a WIP, will appear in Opera Canada in due … ... - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from We left at the interval...ONP Bastille, Paris, Monday May 25 2015 Conductor: Philippe Jordan. Production: Graham Vick. Sets and costumes: Paul Brown. Lighting: Adam Silverman. Genièvre: Sophie Koch. Arthus: Thomas Hampson. Lancelot: Roberto Alagna. Mordred: Alexa...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from parterre box
etting, or surely approaching, some sort of record for sheer breadth of career (70 years!), Lucine Amara returns to the New York stage this summer as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in La Fille du Régiment , as produced by the Martina Arroyo ... - Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from opera, innit?Just when you thought I forgot all about il primo amor, here’s another look at a Tito recording. Though replete with excellent – now legendary – singers, the big star here is Kertesz himself. The way the man manages to ...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from Adult Ballerina ProjectIf you follow Adult Ballerina Project on social media, you probably saw the new stickers we recently received in the mail: If you’re interested in your own, you’ve got a few ways of snagging them if you’re in the US: If...
- Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from parterre box
To celebrate the 86th anniversary of her birth (25 May 1929), I bring to a close Beverly Sills ’ traversal of the Donizetti “Tudor Queens” with this live Anna Bolena from 1973. - Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1828, the mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser was discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg. - Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from parterre box
If La Cieca's life were a romantic comedy, then your doyenne would surely be 1990s era Sandra Bullock , you know, the heroine, right? - Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from The latest articles from OperavoreMy readers are not at a loss for words! I have written more than 380 posts for WQXR in the past four years and usually have a pretty good idea about which ones will arouse controversy and debate among readers and people who work in opera...
