San Diego Opera confirms new season
norman lebrecht
May 19, 2014
Just three operas – Bohème, Don Giovanni and Nixon in China – but a triumph for the board members and fundraisers who overturned the plot
Just three operas – Bohème, Don Giovanni and Nixon in China – but a triumph for the board members and fundraisers who overturned the plot
Weasel words have been used by five male, middle-aged critics to describe a promising young soprano whom they deemed physically too heavy for the role.
This video may make things clearer. Or not. Post by Kevin Sorbo Official Facebook Page.
Charles Harrison, Assistant Director of Music at Lincoln Cathedral for the past ten years, has been upgraded to Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral.
His name is Aleksandrs Antonenko and the scholarship is worth $15,000. He has already sung in good company (see below). That’s some voice.
The mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, who sings leading roles at the Met, Covent Garden and major concert halls and festivals, was outraged like many others at
Andrew Clark in the FT refers to a singer as ‘a chubby bundle of puppy-fat.’ Michael Church in the Independent sniffs at ‘a dumpy girl’.
This is Monti’s famous Czardas, transcribed for the entire piano faculty of the Washington Conservatory of Music by Haskell Small. More fun than anyone’s had
A host of grass-roots initiatives, many of them music based, will lose their funding over the next four years. The big institutions – Opera Australia
The ailing conductor, stricken with Parkinson’s Disease, will receive the Order of Merit of the state of Saxony today.
They have chosen the most important functionary at the annual awards ceremony, after the King of Sweden. The man who will conduct this year’s Nobel
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