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Esa-Pekka Salonen: 10 tips to becoming a conductor
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s career took off when he stood in at the last minute for a sick conductor when he was just 25. Almost 25 years later, he was recently named conductor of the year
The Guardian
Maria Callas: Google gives singer a solo
The 90th anniversary of the legendary soprano’s birth is marked in the latest Google doodle
Why there’s nothing wrong with being bored by opera
Do you find opera tedious? Do bits of Shakespeare send you to sleep? Well, you’re not alone. David Hare, Julian Barnes and John Eliot Gardiner talk to John Crace about the importance of being bored
ABC News
Homeless Man’s Music Moves Listeners to Tears at a Thrift Store
A homeless man who says he cannot read music and has had no formal musical training has stunned staff and customers at a Vancouver second hand store with his virtuoso piano playing
Fast Company
How This Group Of London Hackers Made Musical Instruments From Converse All Stars
What do you get when you put a crowd of creative Londoners in a garage with DIY speaker kits and Converse All Stars sneakers? Musical instruments made from Chucks
The Wall Street Journal
New York Philharmonic’s Concerts Cater to Toddler Set
The Independent
Classical and pop audiences can mix
There’s nothing wrong with trying to make classical music more accessible to younger audiences
The Globe and Mail
Why Rufus Wainwright is turning a Roman emperor into a COC opera
On Monday, the Canadian Opera Company will announce that that opera – simply titled Hadrian– with a libretto by Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor will have its world premiere as the opening production of the COC’s 2018 mainstage season at the Four Seasons Centre
Die Welt
Maria Callas – Inbegriff der dramatischen Sängerin
Maria Callas brachte es vom griechischen Einwandererkind in New York zum Megastar der Klassik. Nur in der Liebe hatte sie kein Glück: Der Reeder Onassis betrog sie, Filmemacher Pasolini war schwul
BBC News