The sought-after tenor has pulled out of Carmen this weekend with a viral infection, he tweets.
He was only due to sing two performances and he may not be back before 2017.
His replacement is the Italian tenor, Andrea Carè.
The sought-after tenor has pulled out of Carmen this weekend with a viral infection, he tweets.
He was only due to sing two performances and he may not be back before 2017.
His replacement is the Italian tenor, Andrea Carè.
Lucy Robinson, virtuoso and Cardiff teacher, says she cured her depression in her 20s by giving up meat and grains. She grows her own food and has been enthusing students with her recipes, now collected.
Read more here.
Next episode: Lutenist loves lamb chops.
The young Irish mezzo Tara Erraught, who was grossly targeted by London critics for her body shape, will make her Carnegie Hall debut on December 4. Go, Tara!
Details below.
Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught returns to the United States this December for series debut recitals at Celebrity Series of Boston and New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall, following her acclaimed US opera debut with Washington National Opera in Washington, DC this past May. The recitals also mark her official performance debuts in each city.
Celebrity Series of Boston, Longy’s Pickman Hall
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“Wiegenlied”
“Jugendgluck”
“Love concealed”
“Love’s Philosophy”
The French streaming and download service, a huge player in the classical market, was placed in receivership on Monday by the Commercial Court of Paris. The company had been forecasting turnover of 7.4 million Euros in the current year.
Its founder Yves Riesel says there is no Plan B and he’s looking for a buyer before November 16.
He has issued the following reassurance message to subscribers:
L’équipe de Qobuz est confiante quant au fait qu’une solution sera retenue suite à la présentation d’offres au Tribunal, dont les animateurs auront à cœur de respecter les engagements pris par Qobuz envers ses clients.
Read more assurance here and reportage here.
Qobuz: holed in the heart
The French conductor Frédéric Chaslin went into the Vienna pit last night to conduct Massenet’s Werther.
Before dropping a downbeat, he took as selfie – as one does – with the Vienna Philharmonic’s concertmaster of the past 30 years, Reiner Honeck (l.).
Honeck quietly ran through his working day: three hours stage orchestra of Hansel und Gretel with Thielemann in the morning, Mahler’s ninth symphony rehearsal with Barenboim in the afternoon and three hours of Massenet in the main house before bedtime.
‘My fingers are warm,’ he told the night’s conductor.
Aftershow pic: Barenboim, Garanca, Chaslin
The distinguished opera director Graham Vick (l.), staging a contemporary piece at Covent Garden this weekend, is alarmed that companies are being pushed to rely more on private money than public subsidy.
‘Opera companies are [being] forced more and more to rely on any private money they can raise,’ he told the (public-funded) BBC. ‘Inevitably, a theatre like the Royal Opera House is able to raise more than smaller, less attractive companies. That’s why we’re seeing the extraordinary explosion of country house opera – Grange Park, Longborough, Glyndebourne and so on – and the shrinking of regional opera.
‘All our marvellous regional opera companies are in real trouble and struggling.’
Discuss.
The American choreographer John Neumeier has pocketed the Kyoto Prize, worth $350,000.
Neumeier, 73, has been head of Hamburg Ballet since 1973, as well as director of ballet at Hamburg State Opera.
Looks like he’s won a supplement to his state pension.
The Royal Opera in Copenhagen has announced savage cuts to help it meet the cost of maintaining a swanky new building, imposed on the company by ambitious politicians.
Copenhagen is having to lay off one in six staff members, including musicians, over the next four years. The Royal Opera will also stop making its own sets.
All in order to show off a showpiece of vanity architecture.
London Symphony Orchestra, are you reading me? Beware of what you want most.
First, Kirill Petrenko put Berlin Phil on hold.
Now Andris Nelsons has told the Leipzig Gewandhaus he can’t start as music director in May 2017, as planned. Too busy in Boston, and elsewhere.
The earliest he can pick up the baton is February 2018, with a first tour in May 2018.
That leaves two major German orchestras twiddling their thumbs in a lengthy interregnum.
Not good for business. Or music.
Andris the Unready
UPDATE from Professor Andreas Schulz, Gewandhausdirektor:
It was with great joy that we announced the appointment of Andris Nelsons as Gewandhauskapellmeister from the 2017/2018 season at our press conference on September 9. Having carefully assessed our respective commitments in the 2017/2018 season together with Andris Nelsons and his management, we have mutually taken the decision to celebrate his inauguration in February 2018, together with the 275th birthday of the Gewandhausorchester. We anticipate this exceptional anniversary season will create a widespread artistic and public impact, setting the stage for many exciting years to come. We are more than happy to welcome our new Gewandhauskapellmeister after such a short interim. Andris Nelsons will begin his tenure in Leipzig with several weeks of concerts, a tour through Europe and two extraordinary open air concerts. We are very much looking forward to having him with us at the Gewandhausorchester.
The St Petersburg Philharmonic music director was named today honorary conductor of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. The only other maestro ever to hold that title was Leonard Bernstein.
Andy White was the drummer George Martin preferred to Ringo Starr, after he had rejected Pete Best.
Andy played on Love Me Do, the Beatles’ first single, and on the B-side, P.S. I Love You.
But the boys preferred Ringo and Andy never got asked back.
Andy died of a stroke yesterday, aged 85.
source: http://beatlephotoblog.com/tag/the-beatles
From Daniel Hope:
First time for everything: at last night’s (private) concert in Brussels, a lady not only received a Skype call during the encore, but actually took it. Holding up her phone, laughing and declaring in a defiant tone: “Haha, yes he’s still playing. LOOK!”. My thanks to the large, irate and music-loving gentlemen sitting next to her, who not only disarmed her of the offending device but gave her a scolding I am sure she will never forget. Huge Applause.