Rendering of new venue being developed by the Cincinnati Symphony (c) MEMI.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and his subsidiary Music & Event Management Inc. have acquired the Coney Island Amusement Park where a new $118 million Outdoor Music Amphitheater will be built. The new venue’s preliminary design is currently in progress. After 137 years, Ohio’s Coney Island amusement park will permanently cease operations on December 31, 2023.
The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande has announced that it will be giving the first hologram symphony concert ever recorded, as part of the 12th edition of the artgenève fair, which will take place from 25 to 28 January 2024. In this recorded concert, 73 musicians will take virtual shape to while performing Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Read More →
Gabriel Feltz
Der 52-jährige deutsche Dirigent Gabriel Feltz wird als Nachfolger für Benjamin Reiners Generalmusikdirektor in Kiel. Feltz ist seit 2013 GMD in Dortmund und seit 2017 auch Chefdirigent der Belgrader Sinfonie. An beiden Orten ist er noch bis zum Ende der Saison 2024/25 unter Vertrag. Read More →
Lenka Hlávková, director of the Institute of Musicology, is among the victims of the mass shooter who killed 14 people in Prague and uninjured a lot of other individuals at the Faculty of Arts. Read More →
The Bayerische Staatsoper has anniub ced the death of Amercian tenor Eduardo Villa: « He was a permanent fixture at the Bayerische Staatsoper for almost thirty years, four of them as a member of the ensemble, before and after which he was always a welcome and celebrated guest, and even more: a friend of the house. Read More →
Das saudi-arabische Kultusministerium wird in Kürze das Tariq Abdulhakim Center (TAHC) in Dschidda eröffnen. Ziel des Zentrums ist es, das musikalische und immaterielle Kulturerbe Saudi-Arabiens zu bewahren, zu fördern und zu feiern. Das TAHC umfasst ein Museum, das an den großen saudischen Musiker, Pädagogen und Sammler Tariq Abdulhakim (~1920-2012) erinnert, sowie spezialisierte Forschungs- und Archiveinheiten. Read More →
Peter Eötvös
(c) Szilvia Csib
Péter Eötvös’s latest opera, Valuska, is a stunning enactment of László Krasznahorkai’s 1989 novel ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’ wherein the lone voice of a misunderstood and publicly mocked individual is the affective focal point in a destructive and dystopian society. The Hungarian music magazine Papageno’s Alexandra Ivanoff has more information. Read More →
Michael Nündel
(c) Oper Leipzig
Berlin-born conductor Michael Nündel is to become the new Music Director of the Musikalische Komödie, Oper Leipzig’s venue specialising in musicals and operettas. His appointment begins with the 2024/25 season. Read More →
Art but fair UNITED hat heute eine Nachtragsanzeige gegen Helga Rabl-Stadler in ihrer damaligen Funktion als Mitglied des Direktoriums der Salzburger Festspiele und als Verantwortliche fürs Sponsoring bei der Staatsanwaltschaft Wien eingereicht. Read More →
On the occasion of Daniel Barenboim’s 80th birthday, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival presented a benefit gala for the Daniel Barenboim Foundation. Today the festival announced that netted revenues are exceeding 186,000 Euros which are given now to the Daniel Barenboim Foundation.
