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Sven Helbig in our Wednesday Web Chat
German composer and pocket symphonist Sven Helbig joins us for a web chat – ask him about working with the Pet Shop Boys and Snoop Dogg, or perhaps get some insight into his fantastic new album, Pocket Symphonies.
Welsh National Opera to tour Middle East and Scandinavia
Welsh National Opera will be touring the Middle East and Scandinavia in 2013 and 2014, it has been announced.
Gramophone
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s LumenoCity attracts crowds of 35,000
The two open-air events, combining live orchestral performance with a digital light show, will be available to view online from September 17
Interpreting Stockhausen’s epic Klang
The London Contemporary Orchestra will perform works from the cycle at the Roundhouse in Camden this month
The Guardian
My dementia opera: ‘It is a story about being human’
In writing The Bargee’s Wife, an opera about dementia, librettist Karen Hayes found inspiration and beauty in the sounds of silence
Der Tagesspiegel
“Musical ist eine Einstiegsdroge”
Stage Entertainment betreibt inzwischen drei Musicaltheater allein in Berlin. Im Tagesspiegel-Interview spricht Johannes Mock-O’Hara, Deutschlandchef der Stage Entertainment, über Publikumswünsche, Pannen und Pferde für Berlin.