
What’s up at the Lyric?
They’ve just announced next season, built around what appears to be the Chicago stage premiere of Berlioz’s Les Troyens. Larry Johnson has full details here on
They’ve just announced next season, built around what appears to be the Chicago stage premiere of Berlioz’s Les Troyens. Larry Johnson has full details here on
Unforgettable. RIP.
Ryan Taylor has been named president and general director of Minnesota Opera, starting in May. He comes from Opera Arizona. It’s the bow-tie that
photo (c) Marion Kalter/Lebrecht Music&Arts The memorial service for Pierre Boulez in Paris was attended this afternoon by the French prime minister Manuel Valls, the
The Royal Liverpool Phil has appointed five new players: Joint Assistant Leaders Andrew Harvey (b.1985) and Mihkel Kerem (b.1981, Estonia); first violin section player, Nuno
The moment in Truly, Madly Deeply when Alan Rickman, whose death was announced today, comes back from the beyond. Juliet Stevenson is his ‘widow’. No-one
One of eight participants in a Channel 5 documentary on alcoholism, Rachael Lander talked about furtive drinking on stage, in orchestra dressing rooms, everywhere ‘to
The auto manufacturer has filmed its new campaign around the inner contemplations of conductor Marie Rosenmir as she drives to work. Marie, 42, won the Swedish
The ovations were so long and loud last night at the end of the second act of Rigoletto that Leo Nucci and Nadine Serra repeated the
From a Paris correspondent: “David Bowie est un fantôme.” These were the words that opened the solemn voiceover of a FranceTV documentary last Wednesday, days
A deadline is reached at midnight in the standoff between the musicians and management of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut. If the players refuse
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