
Munich decides on contested east side concert hall
The city cabinet agreed today to build a new concert hall in the vicinity of the Ostbahnhof. After ten years of prevarication and refusal, this
The city cabinet agreed today to build a new concert hall in the vicinity of the Ostbahnhof. After ten years of prevarication and refusal, this
The revisionists are out to whitewash the great soprano around the centenary of her birth which falls tomorrow. A Guardian journalist writes today: ‘ Whatever
Heinz Fricke, the East German who was music director of Washington National Opera from 1993 to 2008, died on Monday in Berlin at the age
Of all the pianists on earth, Coldplay have chosen the Georgian soloist Khatia Buniatishvili to appear on their forthcoming album, A Head Full of Dreams. Apparently,
The Times published a letter this morning from Humphrey Burton about rumoured threats to the future of English National Opera. Not rumoured, actually. The Arts
More than 1,000 gathered in a cold Helsinki square on the composer’s 150th. Click on link below. Sibeliuksen Finlandia Senaatintorilla 8.12.2015Näin upeasti Sibeliuksen Finlandia kajahti
Nobody wants any part of this hatemonger in their hands or on their face.
Obituaries of Nicholas Smith, who played the floor manager Mr Rumbold in Are You Being Served, report that he wrote string quartets for a hobby.
The Latvian director Alvis Hermanis, presently staging Berlioz’s Damnation de Faust at the Opéra de Paris, is at the centre of a media storm in Germany after telling
Drew Carey is a nationally known TV presenter, actor and sports commentator in the US. He is among the biggest local fans of the Cleveland
La Scala boss Alexander Pereira appeared before the curtain ahead of last night’s season opener to announce that the Spanish baritone Carlos Alvarez was sick with
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