It’s Tristan und Isolde tomorrow at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.
At 75, Daniel Barenboim will finally conduct an opera in the town where he was born.
The renowned ballerina Olga Iskanderova has been run over and killed by two car racers oin St Petersburg’s main avenue.
Olga, who was 74, was one of the most respected teachers at the Mariinsky for the past 20 years.
Two young men have been arrested.
More here.
The cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch repeats her address to the Bundestag at the Wigmore Hall – this time in English:
Lecture starts at 22:30.
…. the musicians checked in empty cases, but carried their naked violins on board. And started playing
The airline is Aeroflot, the airport Riga.
The orchestra is Камерный музыкальный театр им. Б.А. Покровского.
From WBUR’s Tanglewood report:
After a performance of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, which features recurring flute solos, music director Andris Nelsons asked Elizabeth Rowe to stand. Orchestra members who solo during a symphony are frequently asked to take a bow after the performance, but Sunday afternoon’s rollicking applause for Rowe may have also signaled coded support for her unprecedented legal fight for equal pay.
The boisterous applause for Rowe onstage stands in contrast with the quiet public reaction from her fellow musicians offstage. Comments by members of the orchestra, and by some staff members, all sounded very much like “no comment.” “Good for Liz” is about the only non-generic response given during multiple conversations about the matter.
Read on here.
The death has been announced of Albert Hofmann, Moscow’s foremost flute teacher and performer. He was 80.
Named principal flute of the Moscow Philharmonic Society in 1958, he was a favourite of Richter and Oistrakh, with whom he made many chamber recordings. He was named People’s Artist of Russia in 1989 and appointed professor at the Gnessin Institute. He had many foreign students.
This is the first-round list for the second Antal Dorati Conducting Competition in Budapest.
At this stage of the competition, there should not be so extreme a gender imbalance.
Here are the successful candidates:
Balatsinos Georgios
Berney GuillaumeBłażej Kozłowski Vincent
Bolkhovets Sergej
Buribayev Yelmar
Caceres Penuela Edwin
Carvalho Luís
Castrignanò Eliseo
Cheng Henry
Cheung Gary
Colafelice Nicola
Czubaszek Michal
Dantscher Emanuel Jonas
Ellis Nicolas
Elmer Mathias
Erdélyi Dániel
Fukushima Shuhei
Garschi Hamed
Gay Moses Enhui
Grobman Benjamin
Hajjar Marc
Hasegawa Yuki
Hou Fan Ka
Hou Jerry
Hughes Devin Patrick
Humala Alexander
Ip Wing Wun
Jeong Woltae
Juraszek Michal
Karimov Azim
Károlyi Sándor
Kawakami Ryusuke
Kornel Thomas
Kouritas Yorgos
Lajara Angel Antonio
Lam Lik Hin
Lee Baha
Lee Shinae
Lee Sora Elisabeth
Levon Edmon
Li Haoran
Lien Boon Hua
Lopez-Ferrer Francois
Marc Schaefer
Mejias Civera Jose Carlos
Nagiev Eldar
Paluchowski Filip
Park Seung You
Pellicano Julian
Poll Edward
Proust Simon
Sasaki Shimpei
Shankar Harish
Tanaka Yuki
Tian Hui Ng
Torbeev Anton
Trigueros José
Uzcategui Jorge Luis
Vizireanu Vlad
Volsky Stanislav