10th May: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic announces 2019/20 season, BBC Radio 3 reveals New Generation Artists, and Bamberg Symphony unveils theme for 2019/20 season
Friday 10th May '19
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 2019-2020 season announced The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2019-20 season, the 14th under the baton of chief conductor Vasily Petrenko (pictured), has been announced.Ten years on from his landmark Mahler cycle in …
Read13th July: Mariss Janson extends contract with Bayerisches Rundfunk Orchester. ISM and Musicians’ Union announce code of practice to tackle discrimination.
Friday 13th July '18
In today's news: Mariss Janson to extend contract with Bayerisches Rundfunk Symphonieorchester to 2024. Record season for Düsseldorfer Tonhalle. ISM and Musicians' Union announce code of practice. Trouble in Tahiti: watch Bernstein's swinging one-act opera. Composer …
ReadLooking ahead to 2017 – highlights of the year
Wednesday 21st December '16
'2016 - what a year it has been! It’s been a year full of political and cultural changes and we look forward what 2017 holds in store. We have also had to adapt WildKat’s set up and …
Read21th June: US refugee orchestra performs with Syrian singer, new multimedia opera & Decca DJs go classical
Tuesday 21st June '16
Classical News In our news today, Syrian soprano singer performs together with US refugee orchestra in New York, Dutch composer JacobTV creates multimedia opera & Decca DJs go classical. Also, South Africa will host the World Choir Games (WCG) …
Read12th May: European Union Youth Orchestra announces to cease operations, Gene Gutowski dies & Yo-Yo Ma sending scouts for new cooperations
Thursday 12th May '16
Classical News In today's news, European Union Youth Orchestra announces to cease operations from 1 September 2016, opera shows diverse incarnations in New York festival and the Pianist producer Gene Gutowski dies aged 90. Also, Yo-Yo …
Read9th February: ENO singers to vote on strike action, Rachmaninoff back to Moscow & Europe’s most powerful organ in Paris
Tuesday 9th February '16
In today's news, The Guardian reports that ENO singers are to vote strike action and hundreds protest arts cuts in Cardiff. Also, Moscow wants Rachmaninoff's body back and Paris inaugurates Europe's most powerful organClassical Music …
Read2nd March: Is Riccardo Chailly the man to save La Scala? Joseph Calleja, Alex Beard and Sir Nicholas Kenyon team up for artist residency and can singing in a choir make children more moral?
Monday 2nd March '15
Classical News GuardianFacing the music: Bob ChilcottHe wants to put 400 singers in a railway station, and he loves a bit of Barbra Streisand … composer and conductor Bob Chilcott shares his musical passionsThe TimesIs Riccardo …
Read19th August: Verdi arias streamed for free on iTunes, new artistic director for Dartington, and slow Britten ticket sales
Monday 19th August '13
The GuardianHow the Proms had their tone - and temperature - loweredThe man who bankrolled the first ever proms had three very sensible suggestions. Only one of them is no longer part of the concert …
Read10th July: Complimentary Course of Beethoven Sonatas, Rise and Fall of Record Labels and Radical Re-Interpretation of Lulu
Wednesday 10th July '13
The New York TimesComing From Stephen Schwartz: A Musical About an Opera Impresario — in GermanWith the Broadway hits “Pippin” and “Wicked” under his belt, Stephen Schwartz tried his hand at opera, to mixed response, with “Séance on …
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