Michael Rosewell will cease to be Music Director of English Touring Opera at the end of the year.
A former Abbado assistant in Vienna, he has been a fine leader of a vital cog in the UK opera scene.
He continues to be Director of Opera at the Royal College of Music.
Gianandrea Noseda was meant to be appearing at Carnegie next May with the Teatro Regio Torino.
But Turin has sacked its manager and cancelled its US tour, ostensibly for lack of funds.
Noseda, however, will honour the date, He’s bringing in the National Symphony Orchestra from Washington to perform Liszt’s Dante Symphony and Rossini’s Stabat Mater, with all-Italian vocal soloists.
This is the conclusion of an opinion piece by a musicologist – usual cautions apply – in the Philadelphia Inquirer today:
A right-wing fantasy tour of Israel; a glaring absence of women’s voices; an artistic vacuum when it comes to contemporary music; all hiding behind a romantic notion of the sanctity of classical music. These problems are all connected, and speak to the Orchestra’s anxiety at its own status in this city, and in the larger world. For generations the Philadelphia Orchestra was one of few institutions in this town that could claim a world-class status, and even for the many citizens who could care less about classical music, this was a source of pride. Today, it’s hard to find similar pride in an organization so attached to a nostalgic, often reactionary vision of its own history. There is room for lots of different kinds of music in our big city, and maybe it is for the best if the Philadelphia Orchestra is no longer at its center.
Philip Gentry is a musicologist at the University of Delaware, and author of the recent book What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity (Oxford, 2017). pgentry@udel.edu
It could be the newspaper is trying to shrink its subscriber base.
The Sarasota Orchestra’s Evan Epifanio has won the audition for principal bassoon at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Katia Popov, concertmaster of the Hollywood Bowl Orchetstra, has died of ovarian cancer, at 50.
Katia also played with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Long Beach Symphony. Bulgarian born, she is survived by a teenaged son.
There will be a memorial service on Saturday, June 2nd at 1pm, at Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church, 505 N. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Nike Wagner, head of Bonn’s Beethoven Festival, has been obliged to drop the pianist Siegfried Mauser from her programme.
Mauser, 63, has been sentenced in Munich to two years and nine months’ jail for sexual offences as head of the Hochschule.
Remember ‘The House’?
It was a fly-on-wall documentary series that was meant to show the Royal Opera House as being relevant, contemporary and with it.
Instead, it revealed calamity and ineptitude as the company tried to keep shows on stage while looking for a place in which to spend two years of exile during reconstruction.
Now, after years of equivocation, the series has resurfaced on Youtube.
Watch the first episode here.
La Scala is about to announce a long-term baroque project with Cecilia Bartoli.
Bartoli will sing Giulio Cesare in 2019 with Philippe Jarousky and Bejun Mehta in a new production by Robert Carsen. It will be followed by Semele in 2020 and Ariodante in 2021.
La Scala has its own baroque ensemble, founded three years ago and performing one opera each year (la finta giardiniera is next). It is now trying to create a joint period instrument ensemble with Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.
William Norris is leaving after three years as managing director of Tafelmusik, the baroque orchestra and choir.
Official statement:
Toronto, May 23, 2018 … Tafelmusik Board Chair Helen Polatajko announced today that William Norris has resigned from his position as Managing Director, his last day being July 4, 2018. Mr. Norris will be relocating to London. Ms. Polatajko also stated that Tafelmusik will immediately form a search committee and engage a search consultant to begin the process of appointing Tafelmusik’s next Managing Director.
“Over the past three years, William Norris has skillfully steered Tafelmusik through a period of profound change for the organization. During his tenure Elisa Citterio was appointed Music Director, and Tafelmusik has continued to build its stature as a global leader in period performance. We are extremely grateful to William for his dedication and leadership and wish him the very best in his new endeavour,” said Ms. Polatajko.
Norris was previously creative programming director at the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
John Axelrod has pulled out of the Maggio Musicale in Florence as his wife Anastasia is expecting a happy event.
He told the orchestra: ‘While I so wanted to celebrate Bernstein’s centenary and direct the fourth symphony of the Shostakovich cycle, the birth of my son is one of those moments that absolutely require my presence.’
The diva was a late cancellation for a Deutsche Oper gala in Berlin.
They called in Nicole Car, Irina Churilova and Seyoung Park to fill her slot opposite the tenor Saimir Pirgu.
