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In today’s news, Daniel Harding is named the new music director of the Orchestre de Paris, the Bayreuth Wagner Festival is becoming more of a soap opera than a classical opera and the Spectator states that dressing up for the opera is not elitist. Furthermore, Lisa Milne has announced she will be quitting the main stage and devoting the rest of her career to teaching, Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ is being performed in the Israeli Masada National Park and Thomas Hengelbrock will be Chef associé at the Orchestre de Paris from 2016. Today, the Leipziger Bachfest starts, music streaming services aim at Japan and composer and pianist Gabriela Lena Frank answers questions on I Care If You Listen.
The Times
Daniel Harding: the British conductor with a new Paris beat
Daniel Harding, 39, is following Barenboim, Solti and Karajan as the new music director of the Orchestre de Paris. Richard Morrison meets him
The Guardian
The Bayreuth Wagner festival: more soap opera than classical opera
Allegations that joint director Eva Wagner-Pasquier is not allowed even near the festival theatre are the latest twists in a long saga of offstage feuds at Bayreuth
Classical Music Magazine
Daniel Harding takes Paris post
Daniel Harding is to be the next music director of the Orchestre de Paris, succeeding Paavo Järvi.
The Spectator
Dressing up for the opera is not elitist
Evening dress is a great social leveller
Herald Scotland
Soprano Lisa Milne on quitting the stage and turning to teaching
Lisa Milne, one of the finest operatic voices Scotland has ever produced, has announced she will be quitting the main stage and devoting the rest of her career to teaching.
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Im israelischen ’Masada National Park’ wird zurzeit Giacomo Puccinis ‘Tosca’ aufgeführt, in der Regie von Nicolas Joël und unter der Leitung von Daniel Oren, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Israelischen Opernchor und dem Israelischen Symphonie Orchester Rischon Letzion.
klassik.com
Thomas Hengelbrock wird mit Beginn der Spielzeit 2016/17 Chef associé beim Orchestre de Paris. Er ist seit 2011 Chefdirigent des NDR Sinfonieorchesters und leitet seit seiner Gründung das Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble.
MUSIK HEUTE
Bachfest Leipzig beginnt – Verbindung mit Stadtjubiläum
Das Leipziger Bachfest beginnt am (heutigen) Freitag mit einer Neuheit: Erstmals spielt das Händelfestspielorchester zur Eröffnung.
The New York Times
Music Streaming Service Aims at Japan, Where CD Is Still King
As listeners around the world turn to streaming music, there has been one important holdout: Japan. More than 80 percent of the sales in the country are still on physical formats like CDs, and the industry in Japan has been resistant to allowing streaming services to take root.
I Care If You Listen
5 Questions to Gabriela Lena Frank (composer)
London Bach Society @bachlive: Sending good wishes to our Leipzig friends @bachleipzig @StadtLeipzig for a super Bachfest starting today ..Singet dem Herrn eine neues Lied
Telegraph Classical @TeleClassical: How to open an opera festival in your back garden http://tgr.ph/1Mvaa1U
Classical Today @ClassicalToday: YOUNG ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Veronika Eberle, violinist http://goo.gl/Ntu549
Daniel Harding
Photo: Julian Hargreaves