30th June: Christian Thielemann to be music director at Bayreuth, William Tell: nudity and rape scene greete with boos at Royal Opera House, Sir Simon Rattle to be Artist-in-Association with Barbican Centre and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Tuesday 30th June '15
Classical News In today's news, The Times reports that a teenager has joined the cyborgs with a microchip implant and Eric Whitacre explains how music makes us happy. Nudity and a rape scene in the Royal …
Read22nd June: Berlin Philharmonic chose new chief conductor, Simone Young bids good bye to Hamburger Staatsoper, Gunther Schuller dies age 89
Monday 22nd June '15
Classical News In today's news, The Telegraph asks whether opera can save our children, Ivan Hewett argues that music ought to be robust enough to communicate across a variety of acoustics, Gunther Schuller dies at the …
Read26th May: David Pickard named as Director of the BBC Proms, Berlin Staatsoper to be even more expensive, McNeil Robinson II has died age 72
Tuesday 26th May '15
Classical News In today's news a lock of Mozart's hair is set to fetch £12,000 at auction, David Pickard has been appointed Director of the BBC Proms, England swells with the sounds of summer and James …
Read31st March: Why the arts funding system doesn’t work, Birmingham Opera Company, Helmut Dietl dies at the age of 70
Tuesday 31st March '15
Classical News Telegraph Why the arts funding system doesn't work The experience of Mid Wales Opera demonstrates the drawbacks of arts funding in Britain, says Rupert Christiansen 9/11 opera Between Worlds envisages what happened inside the towers Opera has always …
Read9th February: Grammy Winners 2015, interviews with Gregory Porter and Pumeza Matshikiza
Monday 9th February '15
Classical News Guardian New concert halls - the good, the bad, and the rumours Jonathan Nott’s move to Geneva will coincide with a new concert hall for the city, Jansons battles on for a hall in Munich fit …
Read3rd February: International Boris Goldstein Violin Competition responds to criticism, Rattle appears London-bound despite unlikelihood of new concert hall, Munich needs a new concert hall
Tuesday 3rd February '15
Classical News The Guardian Donetsk opera house: tanks on the street but the show must go on The city’s opera house remains open despite the dangers posed by the conflict between local separatists and Ukrainian forces Facing the music: …
Read24th November: Y=X factor: how to write the perfect song, Simon Rattle’s still unknown successor, Metropolitan Opera with 22 million deficit
Monday 24th November '14
Classical News Guardian Y=X factor: how to write the perfect song Can science help us write a hit? Mezzo soprano and physicist Christine Rice goes in search of a formula for the most popular songs – from Handel …
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