Die Bregenzer Festspiele präsentieren für die Ausgabe 2018 eine äußerst positive Bilanz. Bis Montagabend werden und 270.000 Personen das Festival besucht haben, rund 206.000 werden dann Bizets ‘Carmen’ am See gesehen haben, vorausgesetzt es gibt keine weitere Regenabsage. Die ‘Carmen’-Inszenierung kannte eine Auslastung von 100 Prozent. Insgesamt sahen 2017 und 2018 fast 400.000 Besucher das Stück. Read More →

Moscow’s legendary Recording Studio on Malaya Nikitskaya Street is threatened with destruction. As from August 25, dismantling and removal of equipment is planned, to be followed by the demotion of the building. Read More →

Barenboim & West Eastern Divan Orchestra
(c) Patrick Huerlimann LF

Im Rahmen seines Festspielsommers präsentiert ‘3sat’ das Konzert ‘Daniel Barenboim und das West Eastern Divan Orchestra’ am Samstag, 18. August, um 20.15 Uhr. Read More →

A Moscow court has once more extended the house arrest of the Russian theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov over a controversial fraud case to August 22, TASS state news agency reported. The house arrest lasts since August 2017. Read More →

Many studies analysed and described the effects of music listening in the management of pain in adult patients. Most of them found a significant effect of music on pain. A new study shows that music reduces pain perception in healthy new-borns undergoing painful medical procedures. Read More →

The Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra is in great danger, the Abu Dhabi based newspaper The National says. The ensemble has lost more than 50% of its musicians since the beginning of the year. Conductor Mohammed Amin Ezzat says, the musicians have not received their wages since eight months.

At the Gstaad Festival in Switzerland, American conductor Andrew Joon Choi has won this year’s Neeme Järvi Prize. The prize was given after a concert of Gstaad Festival Orchestra which was conducted by the participants of the Gstaad Conducting Academy, directed by Jaap van Zweden. Andrew Joon Choi (*1986) is currently a student at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

The 2018 Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, which was launched on August 10, has announced the 12 semi-finalists (7 women / 5 men from 7 countries) who will participate in the Semi-Final round, which begins next Saturday with the String Quartet session. Read More →

Cecilia Bartoli
(c) Salzburger Festspiele

Cecilia Bartoli has today unveiled a series of new projects with Decca Classics. She has announced her first ever catalogue box set of Rossini recordings, a brand new Vivaldi album, and a new label Mentored by Bartoli to nurture outstanding artists – starting with the debut recording of Mexican tenor Javier Camarena. Read More →

Die Festspiele Erl kommen nicht zur Ruhe. Nach dem Wirbel um den mittlerweile zurückgetretenen Künstlerischen Leiter Gustav Kuhn wegen sexueller Belästigung, läuft nach einer Anzeige durch die Finanzpolizei ein Verfahren seitens der Bezirkshauptmannschaft Kufstein. Es geht um den Verdacht der illegalen Beschäftigung von Ausländern. Read More →