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Deborah Cheetham: The world’s only Aboriginal opera singer
Soprano Deborah Cheetham, who forcibly taken from her Aboriginal parents, talks about ‘Pecan Summer,’ an opera telling the stories of Aboriginal repression in the twentieth century.
Gramophone
Budapest’s Liszt Academy reopens restored Concert Centre
The Liszt Academy reopened its Concert Centre on Liszt’s birthday yesterday with a special gala performance. The 1907 Art Deco venue has been restored over four years as part of a €40m project
Classic FM Online
Music at Prince George’s christening revealed
Family and friends of the Prince of Cambridge celebrated the heir to the throne becoming a member of the Anglican Church with a selection of traditional hymns and music, including J. S. Bach’s Fantasia in G.
John Suchet and Professor Brian Cox for RNCM concert hall campaign
John Suchet and Professor Brian Cox have been named as champions of ‘Your RNCM’, a brand new £3m campaign to fund the transformation of the concert hall at the Royal Northern College of Music
The Piano Guys and Lindsey Stirling nominated for YouTube award
The duo’s piano/cello mashup of David Guetta’s Titanium and Faure’s Pavane is up for Response of the Year in the first ever YouTube music awards, alongside Lindsay Stirling’s Radioactive.
Los Angeles Times
Union Station the platform for the opera ‘Invisible Cities’
Union station Los Angeles will be the setting for a new opera. ‘Invisible Cities’ will also be beamed through headphones.
Die Welt
Mädchen, die fallen, und Mädchen, die schießen
Zwei Operndiven stehen im Mittelpunkt des Saisonstarts an der Wien: Nina Stemme glänzt in Puccinis “La Fanciulla del West”. Diana Damrau meistert einen halbstündigen Parforceritt in den Wahnsinn.
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