Gramophone
La Scala cancels ballet season opening performance following strike action
Chorus member force cancellation of Romeo and Juliet
Arts Journal – Slipped Disc
The results: Best and Worst Orchestras of 2012
The LA Philharmonic and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich make the cut
Classical Music Magazine
Venu Dhupa steps down from Creative Scotland after year to forget
Venu Dhupa, Creative Scotland’s director of creative development, has resigned from the body within weeks of her boss, chief executive Andrew Dixon.
BBC News
Classical music’s ‘all in the mind’
A Brazilian computer scientist and composer has remixed Beethoven to try to demonstrate how individuals hear things in varying ways.
Guardian
Tristan und Isolde – Wagner’s love supreme
At five hours, Tristan und Isolde is undoubtedly long. But Wagner’s transcendent opera, full of daring harmony, will have you spellbound
(Written on December 21, 2012 )
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Classical Music Magazine
Runnicles Assembles Star Cast For BBCSSO Tristan.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will perform the three acts of Tristan und Isolde over a set of three concerts that will take place between September 2012 and April 2013 at both Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and Glasgow’s City Halls.
LA Times
Muse/ique’s New Season To Feature Steven Page.
Muse/ique will kick off its 2012 season this month with a lineup that includes Steven Page, formerly of the band Barenaked Ladies, and appearances by actors Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Wendie Malick.
New York Times
Playing It Safe In Programming Philharmonic.
Alan Gilbert and New York Philharmonic’s 2012-13 season.
Gramophone
ENO Launches Worldwide Search For Opera Creators.
English National Opera is launching Mini Operas, a worldwide, online search for scriptwriters, composers and film-makers that aims to preserve and redefine the future of opera.
Jessica Duchen’s Classical Music Blog
International Women’s Day – A Little Listening.
Jessica Duchen celebrates women in music.
VIDEO
(Written on March 8, 2012 )
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Daily Telegraph
Lang Lang at Latitude: should music festivals embrace classical?
Ivan Hewett wonders if classical music can cope with the great outdoors.
Independent
World’s first sex trafficking opera to premiere in the UK
Anya17 opens at the Liverpool Philharmonic today. The opera tackles the difficult subject of women forced in to prostitution.
Guardian
Close to you
Accompanists: The unsung heroes of music. Tom Service pays homage to the musicians condemned to sitting in the shadows.
Intermezzo
Tristan Und Isolde Und The CBSO.
This was a static Tristan und Isolde
Jessica Duchen’s Classical Music Blog
How To Be Part Of Rox’s Love Album.
Jessica Duchen on the London premiere of Roxanna Panufnik ‘s Four World Seasons .
Opera Chic
Bringing Out Brahms.
The definitive schedule for the 49th Festival Pianistico Internazionale of Brescia and Bergamo has been rolled out, titled “Brahms, the conservative progressive” in homage to the complex character of the German composer.
Arts Journal: Slipped Disc
Another Mahler Howler.
Norman Lebrecht on a Mahler Prize by the city of Klagenfurt, in southern Austria, which requires entrants to set a 1967 poem by Patti Smith.
VIDEO
(Written on March 7, 2012 )
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