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In today’s news, Royal Opera House issues warning for Lucia di Lammermoor, Merton College, Oxford to establish a girls’ choir, Emma Halnan wins Art Club-Karl Jenkins Music Award, Violinist Janine Jansen is handing over the artistic direction of her International Chamber Music Festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands and the Economist questions operas gender imbalance.
The Telegraph
Royal Opera House warns of risque sex scenes in Lucia di Lammermoor
The Royal Opera House has issued a warning of risqué and gory content in its upcoming production of Lucia di Lammermoor, as reported in The Times.
Classic FM
Flautist Emma Halnan wins Arts Club-Karl Jenkins Music Award
Young flautist will now record a performance of a piece composed for her by Sir Karl Jenkins after winning classical music prize, in collaboration with Classic FM
Where have all the good tenors gone, and where are all the basses?
When the new students arrive at Sweden’s two opera conservatories this autumn, they’ll share one thing in common: they’ll all be women
Classical Music Magazine
Merton College, Oxford to establish a girls’ choir
The Merton College Girls’ Choir will be open to girls who will be in school years 5 to 10. Girls selected for the choir will regularly sing in the college’s 13th-century chapel, and will take part in services and concerts in Oxford and further afield.
BBC News
Michelle Obama recruits Missy Elliot, Kelly Clarkson and Zendaya for single
Artists including Missy Elliott, Kelly Clarkson and Kelly Rowland all feature on a charity single put together by US First Lady Michelle Obama.
The Strad
Violinist Janine Jansen to step down as artistic director of her chamber festival
Violinist Janine Jansen is handing over the artistic direction of her International Chamber Music Festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands, to 24-year-old cellist Harriet Krijgh. Jansen, who founded the event 13 years ago, will direct the festival for the final time this year from 29 June to 3 July.
Musikmarkt
Musikautorenpreis 2016: Boy, AnnenMayKantereit und Marteria zählen zu Nominierten
Zu den Nominierten des Deutschen Musikautorenpreises 2016 zählen u.a. AnnenMayKantereit, Selig, Sonja Glass von Boy sowie Marten Laciny (Marteria/Marsimoto), MoTrip und Sven Regener
NMZ
Urheberrecht kommt ins Kabinett – Reform mit Zugeständnissen
Kreative und Verwerter ihrer Leistungen sollen sich „wieder auf Augenhöhe begegnen“, fordert Justizminister Maas
Musik-heute
Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden: Honeck statt Nézet-Séguin
Der kanadische Dirigent Yannick Nézet-Séguin hat die Leitung des Osterfestspiel-Konzerts der Berliner Philharmoniker am kommenden Sonntag abgesagt
Le Monde
La municipalité renonce à présider les Chorégies d’Orange
Quatre jours après la démission du directeur des Chorégies, Raymond Duffaut, vendredi 11 mars, le maire d’Orange tente d’éteindre l’incendie
BBC Radio 3 @BBCRadio3 Parts of Michael Haydn’s Requiem sound similar to Mozart’s, though it was actually written first #EssentialClassics
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