In a hazardous balcony scene, the Russian diva comes out this morning singing, ‘my tiny toes are frozen’. Feel free to add your own captions.
The Montreal International Musical Competition is claiming to be the first among the 126 World Federation of International Music Competitions to offer an award for
The Opéra de Lyon has launched an appeal to recover a saxophone that was stolen from jazz player Jacques Schwarz-Bart on the Paris-Lyon TGV. A reward of 300 euros
Full story here. It is claimed that she is the first opera diva to be awarded the honour of singing the national anthem before the big
Lorin has posted what he was about to say at the Davos Economic Forum, had he not been diverted to ER by a bash on
We didn’t say that. They did. The Welsh so-called ‘opera singer’ has a a new record deal after being dropped by Warner. And the plan,
Like me, Franz Welser-Möst does yoga. Actually, he’s been doing it a lot longer, but I’m catching up…
We warned that more bits would fall off the troubled agency when Libby Abrahams quit two months ago as v-p. Well, today Libby announces that she’s
I ripped open a new Luto release and there was not a single work I knew. It’s the piano music, very esoteric. But good. It’s
Claudio Abbado ci ha lasciati. Ma alla Scala resterà per sempre. It begins: Claudio Abbado has left us, but at La Scala he remains forever. And
Seiji Ozawa has posted a short tribute to his comrade: Claudio and I were good friends from before either of our debuts, all the way
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