In ihrer Reihe mit britischer Musik des 18. Jahrhunderts stellen die beiden Leiter des Ensembles La Rêveuse, Florence Bolton und Benjamin Perrot, Komponisten vor, mit denen Händel in seinem Orchester zusammenarbeitete. Read More →
German contralto Gisela Litz died at the age of 100, her pupil Janina Baechle said on Twitter. Born in Hamburg, she began her career in Wiesbaden. In 1952 she joined the Hamburg State Opera. Ms. Litz went on to an international career with major roles. She sang at both the Edinburgh Festival and the Bayreuth Festival.
Baritone Alberto Rinaldi has died in Rome at the age of 84. He was a singer with an international career. Born in Rome on June 6, 1939, he made his debut in Spoleto in Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra. From there on he sang in the greatest Italian theaters, from La Fenice in Venice, to the Rome Opera, the Regio in Turin, until he landed on the stage of La Scala in Milan as Ottone in Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea in 1966. Read More →
A performance by Anna Netrebko in the Czech capital Prague has been canceled. The announcement came after the Prague government said on Monday that all its coalition parties opposed the concert at a time Russia wages war on Ukraine. Read More →
The criticism of the appointment procedure for the post of rector of the Franz Liszt Academy in Hungary, is also being echoed internationally. The responsible minister received numerous letters of support for the Academy in recent weeks, according to Hungarian media reports. Read More →
Der 1903 in Wien geborene Victor Urbancic und seine jüdische Frau Melitta Grünbaum flüchteten 1938 vor den Nazis ins Exil. Sie fanden eine neue Heimat in Island, wo er an der Musikschule von Reykjavík unterrichtete und über die Jahre zu einer Schlüsselfigur der isländischen Musikszene wurde. Bis zu seinem Tod war Urbancic als musikalischer Leiter am isländischen Nationaltheater tätig. Read More →
Ulrich Witteler, seit 2013 Solocellist der Bamberger Symphoniker, hat unter Leitung von Jakub Hrusa Ernest Blochs Rhapsodie für Cello und Orchester Shelomo für eine Digitalveröffentlichung aufgenommen. Read More →
Conductor Taijiro Iimori died from acute heart failure on Tuesday. He was 82. The late conductor studied at Toho Gakuen College and then honed his skills in the United States. He went on to win prizes at the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition for Conductors (1966), and at the First Herbert von Karajan International Conducting Competition (1969). Read More →
87-year-old ace conductor Zubin Mehta has arrived in his hometown Mumbai to conduct two concerts at the Jamshed Bhabha Theatre on August 19 and 21 with the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI), with whom he is performing for the first time. Read More →
Die neueste Aufnahme von Rachel Barton Pine, mit der sie das zweite Dutzend beim Label erreicht, paart das bekannte erste Konzert von Shostakovich mit einem völlig unbekannten, dem Konzert für Violine und Orchester Dependent Arising von Earl Maneeins. Damit bietet sie eine Verbindung in thematischer Anknüpfung, da Kampf, Unterdrückung und Trotz Elemente sind, die das Werk von Shostakovich ebenso prägen wie sie das Wesen von Heavy Metal Musik bestimmen. Read More →