The departing principal conductor had no regrets in his farewell press conference in Milan after nine ‘wonderful’ years. ‘I have to say very simply: I fell in love with that which I heard,’ he said.
He impressed on Pope Francis this month ‘the very urgent need to find a solution’ in the Middle East and will devote his spare energies to the West-Eastern Diwan Academy that he is opening in Berlin.
And then there’s the Berlin Philharmonic, where a vacancy looms…
Bartoli, the brighest spark on the mountain, has made the Whitsun Festival her own.She signed a new contract today.
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The finalists in the flute section of the prestigious Concours Genève are:
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Ms Elena BADAEVA 25 y.o., Russian Federation |
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Ms Adriana FERREIRA 24 y.o., Portugal |
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Mr. Yubeen KIM 17 y.o., South Korea |
Whoever’s doing media for the previously unprepossessing conductor Gianandrea Noseda should be up for a Christmas bonus.
First, they used the desperate New York Times – without a music exclusive all year – to splash a thin story about his threatened walkout from Torino. Then, along with various other soft plants, they splashed the balding maestro across the glossies.
Here’s Gianni in the new Vanity Fair, no less.
In some kind of violin-shop-cum-delicatessen.
photo (c) Nigel Parry
The Toronto Symphony has posted a small surplus for the past financial year – $222,349 on earnings of over $23 million.
‘The deficit era is over,’ declared new chief executive Jeff Melanson. ‘I have never had a deficit in my career.’
Always good to claim credit for your predecessor’s achievement.
The ultimate trigger for Franz Welser-Möst’s walkout from the Vienna Opera was a disagreement over a favourite piece of his, Richard Strauss’s ballet, Josephslegende.
Franz’s walkout left Vienna with many empty nights in its podium. Josephslegende was one of the last to be filled.
This morning they announced it will be conducted by the Finn, Mikko Franck.
The Finnish conductor Mikko Franck, who has already been announced to take over the musical responsibility of “Elektra” (premiere on 29th
March 2015), will also take over from Franz Welser-Möst in the conducting of the ballet premiere of “Verklungene Feste | Josephs Legende” on the 4th February 2015 (repeats 5th, 8th, 9th and 14th February).
With “Josephs Legende”, one of the most exhilaratingly sounding ballet compositions is returning to the Vienna State Opera. Ever since the
choreographic version was created for the Vienna State Opera Ballet in 1977 by John Neumeier, “Josephs Legende” counts as one of the pieces
which are directly connected to the “Vienna Ballet”. “Verklungene Feste”, which was also included within the premiere of John Neumeier’s
new version of “Josephs Legende” in 2008, completes the work to produce an evening of ballet dedicated to Richard Strauss.
The soloist couples in “Verklungene Feste” are Maria Yakovleva and Vladimir Shishov, Liudmila Konovalova and Davide Dato, Kiyoka Hashimoto and Masayu Kimoto, Irina Tsymbal and Mihail Sosnovschi as well as Eszter Ledán and Robert Gabdullin. In “Josephs Legende”, Denys Cherevychko is Joseph, Kirill Kourlaev is the Angel, Roman Lazik is Potiphar and Rebecca Horner is Potiphar’s wife.
Handel on the escalator.
‘Let’s cancel the visas of all of the fly-in-fly-out conductors of our orchestras for five years and see what happens, says Ralph Myers, artistic director of Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre in a keynote lecture.
The email arrived this morning from a well-known contemporary music foundation. We’ll delete its identity out of pity, probably undeserved.
Dear Norman, as you may know, (X, our chairman) is incredibly busy at the moment. He’s therefore passed on your email address and asked that I write to you on his behalf – in this special 25th anniversary year – in the hope that you will choose to support (our) most ambitious project to date.
You’ll no doubt appreciate that … needs to develop and grow in our very fast-moving world and where better to do this than at the … – a treasure trove of inspiration and an international destination for exploring discovery and achievement. As part of our anniversary celebrations … has teamed up with … to create Objects at an Exhibition. Objects is all about new audiences for new music.
Objects takes place next Autumn and we already have a large portion of funding in place towards our £148,000 project costs but we need to raise at least £10,000 in online donations next week …
We replied: ‘If your chairman’s too busy to write, we’re too busy to give.’
Where do they train these people?
Renée Fleming, coming up shortly on the televised broadcast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
Rub your eyes now.
