NY Times 

What Happens in Vegas Will Also Happen at the Met Next Season

Look for Vegas flash at the Metropolitan Opera next season.

Kay Davis, Coloratura, Soared in Wordless Songs, Dies at 91

“She was a classically trained coloratura,” Phil Schaap.

Kurt Masur Withdraws From Performances With Boston Symphony Orchestra

The conductor Kurt Masur, 84 and increasingly frail, has withdrawn from performances of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

JDCMB

Cats and mermaids take over Covent Garden

Jessica Duchen went to have a sneak peek behind the scenes at the Royal Opera House the other week, where they were rehearsing Rusalka 

The Guardian

Why Oramo is great news for the BBCSO

Conductor Sakari Oramo will raise the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s game and put a smile on their faces, writes Fiona Maddocks.

BBC Music Magazine 

Colin Murray

The TV and radio sports presenter gets ready to make his conducting debut with the BBC Philharmonic.

LA Times 

Lorin Levee, principal clarinetist with L.A. Phil, dies at 61

Lorin Levee, the principal clarinetist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has died at age 61, the orchestra announced Thursday.

 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/02/lorin-levee-principal-clarinetist-with-la-philharmonic-dies-at-62.html

(Written on February 24, 2012 )

Gramophone

Sakari Oramo named BBC Symphony chief conductor designate

Succeeds Jiří Bělohlávek at the 2013 BBC Proms

Concerts for babies

Is it ever too early to introduce your child to live classical music?

BBC Music Mag 

Sascha Goetzel

The Viennese conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra on their new CD Music from the Machine Age 

Listen to our Opera BBC Music Magazine Awards podcast

Learn more about the three recordings nominated in the Opera category

The Guardian 

Klinghoffer: don’t forget to listen to the music

The controversy surrounding interpretations of John Adams’s opera The Death of Klinghoffer looks set to continue with ENO’s new production. But amid all the debate and protests, don’t overlook the music

NY Times 

Philharmonic Announces Its Next Season

The orchestra is making a fresh start of sorts next season.

LA Times 

Max Raabe’s ‘elegant experiment’

The German singer and bandleader and his Palast Orchester go 21st century retro with their new album, ‘One Cannot Kiss Alone.’

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-max-raabe-20120222,0,6311073.story

(Written on February 23, 2012 )