Placido Domingo
The American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) announced that formal union disciplinary charges were filed against opera singer Placido Domingo. This came after the Union concluded an investigation about the singer. The investigation had « substantiated sexual harassment allegations against Mr. Domingo », AGMA says. Read More →
Myung-Whun Chung
Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung has cancelled performances in Italy after going into home quarantine in France upon returning from a trip to Tokyo, the Korean Herald reports. Chung was to conduct the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence next Saturday. It remains unclear whether Chung’s cancellation is really the fear of having been infected in Japan or the fear of being infected in Italy.
Adam Fischer
Der 70-jährige ungarische Dirigent Adam Fischer hat sein zum Saisonende auslaufendes Engagement verlängert und bleibt weitere fünf Jahre Principal Conductor der Düsseldorfer Symphoniker. Read More →
Gioacchino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini wurde an einem Schalttag geboren, am 29. Februar 1792. Mithin wird heute sein 55. Geburtstag gefeiert… Und zu diesem Geburtstag erschienen im Verlag Dohr die drei Bände ‘Göttlicher Meister, ich habe dich verkannt! – Gioachino Rossini aus der Sicht des frühen biographischen Schrifttums in deutscher Sprache’, nach den originalen Quellen transkribiert, eingeleitet und kommentiert von Guido Johannes Joerg. Read More →
Gianandrea Noseda
(c) Sussie Ahlburg
The National Symphony Orchestra in Washington canceled all of its remaining concert of a planned Asian tour. The orchestra originally was to play eight concerts with music director Gianandrea Noseda. On Feb. 4, the NSO called off concerts in Beijing on March 13 and 14 and one in Shanghai on March 17. In an announcement Thursday night, the orchestra also canceled performances from March 6-11 in Fukui, Sakai, Hiroshima and Tokyo.
All events with more than 1000 people are banned from now on and until at least 15 March in Switzerland. The Federal Council took this decision on Friday because of the coronavirus epidemic. « The government’s top priority is to protect the population, » Health Minister Alain Berset told the press. Over the past few days, cases have spread widely throughout the world and in particular in Switzerland’s neighboring countries, especially in Italy and Germany, where the situation is accelerating.
Das Riga Jurmala Music Festival gründet eine Akademie zur Förderung junger Musiker. So findet dieses Jahr bei der ersten Ausgabe u.a. ein Dirigierkurs mit Manfred Honeck statt. Die Riga Jurmala Academy wird gemeinsam mit der Lettischen Musikakademie Jāzeps Vītols organisiert. Das Programm umfasst Meisterkurse im Dirigieren und für Klavier, Streicher und Holzbläser unter der Leitung der Pianisten Andras Schiff und Leif Ove Andsnes sowie von Stimmführern des Symphonieorchesters des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
Zwei Jahre nach seiner Gründung hat sich das Thüringer Bach Collegium vorgenommen, weitere musikalische Schätze zu heben und diese als CD-Aufnahmen der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen. In Kooperation mit dem Plattenlabel Capriccio und Deutschlandfunk Kultur sollen in den nächsten zehn Jahren jährlich ein bis zwei CDs aufgenommen werden. Read More →
Guido Cantelli
(c) Douglas Glass/Warner
To celebrate the 100th birthday of the Italian conductor, Italy’s Teatro Coccia of Novara is organizing – after a forty-year pause – the 11th edition of the competition that launched the careers of conductors like Riccardo Muti, Adam Fischer or Eliahu Inbal. The Competition comes alive in a coproduction with the Teatro Regio di Torino and a recording partnership with Warner Classics. Read More →
Placido Domingo
Photo: Sheila Rock
Shortly after apologizing for sexual harassment. the Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo has cancelled five performances in May at Madrid’s Teatro Real. This was announced by the opera house. With his decision Domingo possibly wanted to forestall a cancellation by the house. The Teatro Real declared that they had « zero tolerance for any kind of harassment and abuse ». Domingo is still scheduled to sing in several European cities.
