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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Musicians of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra are about to issue a further challenge to claims by the manager, Peter Gelb, that high labour costs have brought the Met to a point of economic crisis. The musicians argue that the crisis was... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Malcolm Layfield, who was forced to resign last year as head of strings at Chetham’s School of Music during police investigations of historic sex offences, has finally been charged with one count of rape. The charge relates to a wo... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletOperatoonity.com review: Ariadne in Naxos presented by Glimmerglass Festival Live performance: Monday, July 28, 2014 Alice Busch Opera Theater; Cooperstown, NY To put it plainly, Ariadne in Naxos is an odd show. It’s a mashu...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukWorcester Cathedral Geraint Bowen handled the tricky pacing of Dvoák's sombre, yet hopeful masterpiece with discipline and grace The Three Choirs festival had already been going strong for almost a century and three quarters when Dvo&aac...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Culture » Michael WhiteGershwin’s Porgy and Bess is a piece that was conceived as an opera but works better as a musical; and living proof is the sassy, sexy, but no nonsense new production that’s just opened at the Regent’s Park Theatre – which is Porgy...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalVerdi Otello at Opera på Skäret. Soloists, Opera på Skäret’s Chorus and Orchestra, Marcello Mottadelli, (conductor). Kopparberg, 26.7.2014 (Premiere I) (GF) Cast: Production: Direction: William Relton Stage design and costumes: Cordeli...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Peninsula ReviewsReliably unpredictable. Predictably extraordinary. You can count on many sure things from the 2014 Cabrillo Festival—remarkable musicianship, intellectual stimulation, passion and camaraderie—all of which take place in the context of an ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalThree Choirs Festival (4) Mahler. Katherine Broderick (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Juraj Valčuha (conductor), Worcester Cathedral, 28.7.2014 (JQ) Mahler – Symphony No 2 in C min...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
The liquidation of Rome Opera – music director: Riccardo Muti – has been called off. For a month, at least. A peace deal has been put on the table for the unions to consider in a referendum. There will be cuts, but not as dee... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalWagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Kirill Petrenko (conductor), Bayreuth, 28.4.2014. Cast: Siegmund: Johan Botha Hunding: Kwangchul Youn Wotan: Wolfgang Koch Sieglinde: Anja Kampe Brünnhilde...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTThe BBC Promns always feature orchestras from outside the UK. We've heard tThe Berliner Philharmoniker, The Wiener Philharmoniker, SWR Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Concerto Copenhagen and many, many more. This year the focus is on orc...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Renato Fresia-Verdino, who coached singers at Opera Australia for 25 years, died suddenly on Sunday of a heart attack. He was 64. Renato had also taught singers in New Zealand and Wales. A a kid in Rome, he played crowd scenes in Ben Hur... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Giorgio Gaslini, the Italian jazz pianist who composed the soundtrack for Michelangelo Antonioni’s La notte (The Night, 1961), has died, aged 84. He was the first teacher of jazz at Rome’s Santa Cecilia Academy. -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletWe love opera! We love movies! Help use select the ou […]
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Balletby Christie Connolley There are two things that […]
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukRoyal Albert Hall, London The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Jonathan Dove's new work confidently, but it often comes across as background music needing a voiceover Jonathan Dove 's new work takes on the daunting challenge of celebrating...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet“A film is – or should be – more like music […]
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
I was asked the question yesterday by a Classic FM camera team at the opening of the Bristol Proms, an event that is trying to break the straitjacket formality of concertgoing. The answer that sprang to mind was: ‘if classical musi... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
We’ve had sight of a letter sent by an eminent American soprano to a number of her colleagues, asking them to join her in reducing their fees by 12.5 percent in order to help the Metropolitan Opera balance its books. Hers is an hon... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Ottawa, Canada has had the privilege of playing host to two of the largest chamber music festivals in the world for five years now, and to one for fifteen before that. On Friday, July 11, the first of these, Music & Beyond, played ho... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Michael Haefliger has made such a success of the Lucerne Festival that his name has been linked as a possible successor to Clive Gillinson at Carnegie Hall or Peter Gelb (after Götterdämmerung) at the Met. Today, however, Haefliger signe... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from - Classical RSS FeedJonathan Dove is a composer refreshingly devoid of vanity: his style is tonal, and he aims above all to be useful, with a prolific output of community and youth operas for regions which classical music doesn’t normally reach.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Classical Music on Huffington Post
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
This is a meeting yesterday of the directorate of the Friends of the Bayreuth Festival. Not much to laugh about. l-r: Business director Dieter Sense, Christian Thielemann (back to camera), Katharina Wagner and Wolfgang Wagner. Photo: Dr.... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
The internationally performed French composer Eric Tanguy has lost both of his parents over the past three weeks, to separate heart attacks. His father, Dr Alain Tanguy, was eminent in cancer research. His mother, Thérèse, raised six chi... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicCheryl Barker and Peter Auty photo credit Fritz Curzon Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur , Cheryl Barker, Peter Auty, Manlio Benzi; Opera Holland Park Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 26 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Stylish 1940's setting for Cilea's ly...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Sinfini
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet Tweets#4DAYSTOGO #PULSE at #CommonwealthGames this weekend! #NewMusicBiennial @GCHalls @NMBiennial Watch the trailer.. http://ow.ly/zzkgR
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet TweetsIn this video from our archive classical superstar Nicola Benedetti talks about Sibelius's Violin Concerto http://vimeo.com/67223112
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet TweetsThe wonderful collages in our new concerts brochure were designed by talented artist Sarah Maycock. She enjoyed... http://fb.me/6yNwtItWT
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet TweetsSTREAMING NOW: Steven Isserlis and Mikhail Pletnev at #verbierfestival: http://www.classical-music.com/article/verbier-festival-live-steven-isserlis-and-mikhail-pletnev …
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet TweetsThe collages in our brochure were designed by artist Sarah Maycock. She enjoyed it so much it's featured on her blog! http://sarahmaycock.co.uk/NEW-Collages-for-ASMFO …
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet Tweets@MusicMagazine #NOW #live at @VerbierFestival #chambermusic #cello #piano with Steven Isserlis & Mikhaïl Pletnev pic.twitter.com/MPxs0DlgxX
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet Tweets#NOW #live at @VerbierFestival #chambermusic #cello #piano with Steven Isserlis & Mikhaïl Pletnev pic.twitter.com/MPxs0DlgxX
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet TweetsOur new Haydn release is David Mellor's album of the week on @ClassicFM: 'A fitting tribute to Sir Colin Davis'. http://bit.ly/1qIjs4D
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet TweetsIn 20 min #live at @VerbierFestival, reunion of 2 long-time friends Steven Isserlis & Mikhaïl Pletnev, #cello #piano http://ow.ly/zH2eA
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet TweetsThe second @VerbierFestival live stream on our website starts in 30 minutes! http://www.classical-music.com/article/verbier-festival-live-steven-isserlis-and-mikhail-pletnev …
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet Tweets‘I'm a mixture of Russian blood and the English school’ A revealing interview with @VMuntagirov http://www.roh.org.uk/news/vadim-muntagirov-i-am-a-mixture-of-russian-blood-and-the-english-school … ^C
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet TweetsA tragic lovestory- hopefully your day offers all of the joy but none of the tragedy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBE4m1aEnqc&list=PL-IXdkJ4LY4mFXa4qfp9uO5rGtWWouUvk … More@ http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/concert/...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.uk'We want to communicate the art of opera hoping that it will engage and interest people who normally dont go to see performances,' says opera company's manager Google Glass at Glastonbury video Turandot review An Italian opera company wi...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet TweetsMozart comes to Morundah this Friday, with our touring production of The Magic Flute. http://bit.ly/1sCEvFj pic.twitter.com/jzTNc1pnlF
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicHandel The Triumph of Time and Truth ; Ludus Baroque, Richard Neville-Towle; Delphian Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 22 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Rare outing on disc for Handel's final oratorio. Handel's The Triumph of Truth and Time has h...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet TweetsTonight at #BBCProms @BIFO_ Proms debut with @saschavienna plus world premiere of @gprokofiev concerto by @HopeViolin http://ow.ly/zFx7A
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
Oh, how we love a villainess – especially an imperious, poisonous minx like Gamzatti, the snake-planting princess of La Bayadère. In her honour, we’re celebrating the Mean Girl in all her best forms. Today, we open the book o... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music31 July 2014 is the deadline for entry into this year's John Kerr Award for English Song . The award was established in memory of the tenor John Kerr who had a long involvement with the museum at Finchcocks , researching and performing E...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet Tweets"This ensemble cast is a world-class showcase worth seeing" @dailytelegraph reviews #OAdonG http://bit.ly/1nNKoMB
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukIt's usual to interpret Mahler's last completed symphony as a prefiguring of his death. But different conductors make the work mean very different things More from 50 greatest symphonies Lets begin at the end. The final page of the last,...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Peninsula Reviews
Andrew Megill & Michael Beattie At Carmel Presbyterian Church on Monday, July 28, we had an opportunity to hear four of the 2014 Adams Vocal Master Class young professional singers working with Festival Associate Conductor Andrew Meg... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top Classical Music, Opera & Ballet TweetsThe final tickets to see the exquisite LSO this November are mostly youth-priced. Bring your kids to @londonsymphony http://bit.ly/1ov4U7i
