Graham Spicer reports that La Scala ballerina, Antonina Chapkina, is in intensive care after hit by tram outside Milan’s Central Station.
It appears the young Russian was wearing headphones and did not hear the vehicle approach.
Read on here.
Graham Spicer reports that La Scala ballerina, Antonina Chapkina, is in intensive care after hit by tram outside Milan’s Central Station.
It appears the young Russian was wearing headphones and did not hear the vehicle approach.
Read on here.
The body of Don Plumeri, known as Terry, was found Friday at 6662 W. Candier Court in Dunnellon, Citrus County, Florida.
He had suffered extensive upper body injuries.
‘This homicide was brutal. It was vicious,’ said Sheriff Jeff Dawsy.
Terry Plumeri, 71, had written music for more than 50 Hollywood films, including several Stephen King horror dramas. Some has been adapted into concert suites.
Originally from New York, Terry graduated from Manhattan School of Music. He was an accomplished double-bass player and conductor.
UPDATE: Police suspect a connection to a spate of local burglaries.
At Finnish National Opera, 2019-21. With lots of new technology.
The pianist and composer Geoffrey Poole sustained hand injuries in a dog attack in Gloucestershire over Easter.
The dog and its owner fled from the scene.
Geoffrey, 67, was forced to cancel a concert. We wish him a rapid recovery.
Full story here.
Glastonbury has gone hard Left.
Can Glyndebourne come right back at them?
(Probably not, but Longborough is popular with Govie and the Brexits.)
The Barcelona-based composer Enrique Granados drowned in the English Channel 100 years ago, on March 24, 1916, after his ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat.
He had begun writing a piano concerto in 1909 for a Barcelona performance, got distracted, wrote Goyescas, became world famous and drowned on his way home from visiting President Woodrow Wilson in the White House.
Six years ago, the Spanish musicians Melani Mestre, chief conductor of the Lviv Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), found the fragments at the Catalan National Library and put together a performing score that was recorded by Mestre for Hyperion.
Barcelona will finally get to hear the concerto on April 21, from the pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell.
The Komische Oper has announced its season.
Eight new shows including Aribert Reimann’s Medea, Rameau’s seldom-staged Zoroastre and Musorgsky’s even rarer The Fair at Sorochyntsi.
The standout production will be Oscar Straus’s Cleopatra’s Pearls, a subversive work of the 1920s.
And they tell us London can only afford one fulltime opera house and a shadowy ENO.
The multidisciplinary Belgian artist Jan Fabre has resigned as curator of this summer’s Athens and Epidaurus Festival. He had annoyed the locals by making ‘Belgian spirit’ the festival theme.
Fabre, 58, said he did not know much about Greek art but he knew lots of Belgians.
In a statement to the Belgian press he said: ‘I had accepted the proposal of the Ministry of Culture to make artistic choices freely. This does not seem possible in Greece.’
Greek media are in uproar.
image (c) Jan Fabre
Don’t ever accuse Manchester of Little Englandism.
The Halle Orch’s new assistant conductor, succeeding Jamie Philips, is Jonathon Heyward, from Charleston, South Carolina.
Jonathon, 23, recently won the Besancon conducting competition.
There has been much muttering about importing a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard to the home of a national opera company, but veteran critic Edward Seckerson was surprised last night to find the ENO orchestra highlighted as never before.
The ENO Orchestra was firmly part of the action in Lonny Price’s nifty staging, nestling among the steel walkways of James Noone’s set, and for once they were as much the star of the show as the lady everyone had come to see.
It’s been 20 years since I saw Glenn Close…
Read on here.
Production note: Sunset Boulevard is produced by arrangement with The Really Useful Group Ltd and is based on the original Paramount film by Billy Wilder.
UPDATE: And this from Lloyd Evans in the Spectator:
Visually this production is immaculate. A huge orchestra, seated on stage, is partially concealed beneath a network of intersecting staircases that doubles as the movie-lot and as Norma’s sprawling home. Golden lights illuminate the musicians against an azure backdrop that creates the blue-orange formula beloved of unpretentious, crowd-pleasing designers. And the music, though not Lloyd Webber’s finest, is bashed out with faultless efficiency.
The Boston Symphony and Leipzig Gewandhaus chief has been awarded a 25k watchmakers prize. See below.
Andris Nelsons honored with the 2016 Glashütte Original MusicFestivalAward
The Glashütte Original MusicFestivalAward, which includes a prize of 25,000 Euros, is donated by watchmakers Glashütte Original and presented in cooperation with the Dresden Music Festival. Past winners include Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, Hélène Grimaud, Hilary Hahn and fado singer Mariza.
The great Danish dancer and choreographer Johan Kobborg awoke today to find his name removed from the website of Bucharest National Opera and Ballet as if he never existed.
His dismissal comes within 24 hours of the appointment of an interim general director, an appointment published so far only in Slipped Disc.
Johan writes: ‘It is with heavy heart I find my name removed as artistic director of the ONB company. I have nothing but love for the company. I will dream one day of returning and finishing what we started. I am sorry dancers that I didn’t get a chance to tell you personally. You all beautiful (sic).’
There’s only one boss now in Bucharest. Just like the old days.
UPDATE: Ballerina threatens boycott.