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San Diego Opera to stay open amid crowdfunding success
The 58-member board of directors voted in March to shut down, but recent campaign saved the troubled company.
Are opera singers now to be judged on their looks not their voice?
A storm of protest has erupted over critics’ disparaging comments about a Glyndebourne singer’s size and shape. If there is a line over which opera critics should not step, then it is into the realms of a singers’ personal appearance, writes mezzo soprano Jennifer Johnston.
Classic FM Online
Pittsburgh Symphony auditions barking dogs
A group of dogs were put through their paces at an audition for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, to determine which would take part in a performance of Leopold Mozart’s Hunt Symphony.
Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Philharmonic faces final curtain before £13.8m face lift
As it shuts its doors this weekend capital development director Emma King discusses the long-term vision for the Phil.
Classical Music Magazine
Phillip Sommerich reports from the final day of events at Classical:NEXT 2014. Appropriately, the final conference of Classical:NEXT was titled ‘Classical Music is Dead’, and speaker Brendan Walsh of consultancy Brending began in style.
Limelight Magazine
Global politics causes controversy at Carnegie Hall
World-renowned Finnish soprano Karita Mattila has publically refused to sing under the direction of Russian conductor Vladimir Gergiev, as tensions between Russia and the rest of the world manifested themselves at Carnegie Hall.
The New York Times
Pop Music Recital With a Classical Veneer
On Saturday, the Tribeca New Music Festival presented ‘Poetry in Motion:’ an evening of polished pop that featured the soprano Mellissa Hughes.
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