27th September: Renée Fleming on Letterman, Gerard Mortier, and Inflatable Concert Hall
Friday 27th September '13
Classical Music MagazineProtest disrupts Met’s Eugene Onegin first nightThe Metropolitan Opera’s season-opening production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin on 23 September was disrupted briefly by a lone protester urging the house and its cast to take a public stand against …
Read24th September: Gay rights hecklers at the New York Met, Pope loves Mozart, and J.S Bach: secret thug?
Tuesday 24th September '13
Guardian Revealed: the violent, thuggish world of the young JS Bach John Eliot Gardiner's research has shattered 'sanitised' versions of the composer's lifeTelegraphMozart music best for council calls put on hold Local authorities use Mozart's pieces more than …
Read9th August: Opera singers capsize, Wigmore Hall launches new televised series, and conductor Mariss Jansons
Friday 9th August '13
Classic FM OnlineOpera singers capsize during open-air Magic FluteThree opera singers were left bedraggled and sodden when the boat carrying them to an open-air stage capsized, tipping them into a lakeThe TimesExplain yourself: Mariss JansonsLatvian-born …
Read30th January: Coughing in Concerts, Music Streaming Increase and Social Media Marketing
Wednesday 30th January '13
The TelegraphCoughing in classical concerts 'twice as likely'People are twice as likely to cough during a classical concert as they are during normal life, an academic researching the irritating phenomenon has claimed.The New York TimesAs …
Read18th October: Auctioned Schoenburg Scores, Apprenticeship Schemes, and Stolen Instruments Discovered
Thursday 18th October '12
Classic FMOpera North spring season to feature Handel, Britten and WagnerThe spring 2013 season for Opera North has been announced, with opera from Handel, Wagner and Albert Herring topping the bill.John Suchet's Beethoven Book TourClassic FM's …
ReadClassical Music and Arts News – Sir Mark Elder, NY Philharmonic, Toby Spence
Monday 21st November '11
Royal Philharmonic SocietyPresentation of Honorary Membership to Mark ElderHonorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society has been awarded to Sir Mark Elder CBE, Music Director of the Halle Orchestra.Slipped Disc: Norman LebrechtOutrage: UK immigration bans Korean …
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Friday 18th November '11
Every day the WildKat team scan the newspapers and blogs online to bring you a digested list of the day’s classical music.Gramophone Blogs500 years of St. Johns College, CambridgeAndrew Nethsingha looks to the future as …
ReadClassical Music News – La Sonnambula, Mikhail Rudy, Pictures at an Exhibition.
Monday 14th November '11
Every day the WildKat team scan the newspapers and blogs online to bring you a digested list of the day’s classical music.The GuardianAnother View on La SonnambulaBellini's views on somnambulism are very much of his …
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