Die langen schwarzen Haare nach hinten gegelt, in schwarzer Hose und Hemd und Schlangenmustermantel zeigt er bodygebuildete Muskeln, die gut und gerne darauf schließen lassen, dass er auch Ähnliches in der Hose haben könnte.
His long black hair slicked back, sporting black tights and shirt and a snakeskin print jacket, he displays body-builder muscles, which are pretty good and which makes one happy to conclude that he may also have similar attributes inside his pants.
Ildebrando Arcangelo today placed his management in the cooler hands of Askonas Holt.
photo: Uwe Arens/DG
The LA Phil music director will conduct the award-giving concert with the Royal Stockholm Phil on December 8, it has been announced.
The composer credits his librettist for Girls of the Golden West. ‘I’m making poetry of history,’ he says.
A good seven-minute report on the new opera.
Watch.
The former rector of the Munich Academy of Music and the Salzburg Mozarteum, Siegfried Mauser, was in court again today charged with the rape of a woman who applied to be his assistant and the molestation of another.
Mauser, 63, denied the charges.
He has already been convicted of groping two female faculty members in Munich and, while he has not resumed his academic career, various old friends have invited him to serve on piano juries.
The international cellist and composer Wolfgang Zamastil died yesterday, after a 14-month struggle, of pancreatic cancer.
Originally from Salzburg, Wolf found his composing voice during a year in Frankfurt with the Ensemble Modern.
He joined the group around the New York choreographer Richard Siegal, who says: ‘He helped shape the direction of my work by starring in or creating roles in four productions over 10 years.’ Wolf set up his own instrumental ensemble, produced several CDs and played cello in the Asasello Quartet of Cologne.
He leaves a wife, Frederica, and two small children.
The quartet has posted this appreciation:
Wolfgang Zamastil (13.03.1981 – 26.11.2017)
Der Tod ist alterslos. Und das müssen wir auch schon in unserem „zarten“ Alter feststellen. Leider tut es sehr weh. Wir sind vom Tod unseren ehemaligen Cellisten Wolfgang Zamastil, Vollzeit-Asasello in den Jahren 2010-2014, zutiefst getroffen und bedrückt. Wir sind vorbereitet unvorbereitet… Uns fehlen die Worte… Unser tiefstes Beileid geht an die Grossfamilie Zamastil. Ruhe in Frieden, lieber Wolfi…
Death has no age. And we have to realize this already in our “tender” age. Unfortunately this hurts very much. We are deeply touched and dejected about the death of our former Cellist Wolfgang Zamastil, Full-time Asasello from 2010 until 2014. We are prepared unprepared… We are speechless… Our deepest condolences to the Family Zamastil. Rest in Piece, Dear Wolfi…
The Polish pianist Izabella Zielińska has died in Poznan at the age of 106.
Using the stage name Iza Ostoia, she began an international performing career in 1935, only to be silenced by the Nazi invasion of Poland, under which pianists were forbidden to play Chopin. She gave secret piano lessons during the occupation. In 1942 she married Bogdan Zieliński.
With five children to raise, she concentrated mostly on teaching, co-founding the Wielkopolska Music School in Poznan. In 2011 she received the Golden Cross of Merit from the President of Poland. Her immense age granted her something approaching cult status. Born in 1910, she would have been 107 in December.
José Razador, a Belgian-Walloon tenor of Italian descent, started out as a soloist at the Liège Opéra in 1970. He went on to sing with Belgian and French companies for three decades.
His roles included Faust, Werther, Pinkerton, Luigi (Il Tabarro), Ismaele (Nabucco), Sou-chong, Macduff, Dimitri (Boris) , Mario (Tosca), Rodolfo (Bohème), Vladimir (Prince Igor), Barinkay (Zigeunerbaron), Fenton (Falstaff), the Duke in Rigoletto, Don José, Vasek (Bartered Bride), Rinuccio, Turiddu, Mylio, Canio, Nadir, Alfredo (Traviata).
He recorded two albums of operetta and Neapolitan songs and excerpts of Grétry’s Lucille.
The headmaster Stephen Yeo has left ‘to pursue other opportunities,’ according to an internal message. He will remain head nominally until the end of the term next month, but will not set foot again in the school.
An interim head, Bernard Trafford, formerly of Royal Newcastle Grammar, will fill in after the New Year.
Once again, Purcell has shed a head without any account to parents or students of the reasons for his departure.
Due process seems to mean nothing at this troubled school.
The former Post Hotel in Toblach (Dobbiaco), where Gustav Mahler used to take coffee every day after collecting his mail, is under threat of imminent demolition.
The churn continues at a once-prestigious UK music school where nothing seems to have settled since a controversial head departed in the dead of night six years ago.
The latest incumbent, Stephen Yeo, appointed in May 2015, departed at 3pm on Friday, we hear.
The school has issued no statement and we’re unable to obtain a comment at the weekend but our spurces are specific about the time of departure.
The headmaster’s welcome on the website is now signed off by an ‘acting head’, although Yeo’s name has not yet been taken down from other sections.
Purcell has been through more heads in the present decade than most of us have bought new overcoats. It all stems from a failure of governance and transparency at the time of the first defector’s midnight flit.
The school’s president is Sir Simon Rattle. Patrons include Vladimir Ashkenazy and Kiri te Kanawa.
The international soprano Carol Neblett died on Thanksgiving Day.
After her City Opera debut at 23 as Musetta in La Bohème, she was a company stalwart for ten years before the Met came knocking. Carol went on to sing at all major houses, forming a notable partnership on stage and on record with Placido Domingo.
Claudio Abbado chose her for his recording of Mahler’s second symphony. Her signature role was Minnie in Puccini’s Fanciulla del West.
Born in Modesto, California, and graduating from UCLA, she returned later in life to the golden west to be artist in residence and voice teacher at California’s Chapman University.
She was married first to the cellist Douglas Davis, then to Kenneth Schermerhorn, music director of the Milwaukee Symphony, and thirdly to a cardiologist, Phillip Akre. She had three children.
Early on, she shocked America by playing Thais in the buff, accusing agile photographers of snapping pubic hair that she kept hidden from the audience. The New York Times splashed its feature with the headline ‘What do you Say to a Naked Prima Donna?’. It’s a finely calibrated piece of writing by Steve Rubin, who was never lost for questions, and a good insight into the rise of an all-American artist. And the headline was not unwarranted: she did a topless shoot in the bath for Paul Slade and would flourish pictures of her tempestuous Thais.
