Emily D'Angelo
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The young 22-year-old mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo won First Prize and the Audience Award in the Cesti Singing Competition in Innsbruck. Second Prize went to Eléonore Pancrazi from France followed by Giulia Bolcato from Italy. Read More →
Houston Grand Opera - Wortham Center
Close to Buffalo Bayou River, Houston Opera is flooded and the two stages are under water. The Opera’s website is offline and on Twitter you can read: « Due to power outages stemming from the severe weather in Houston, our website is down. We will provide an update as soon as possible. » Read More →
The very first edition of Concours Fondation Polycarpe, a competition for opera conductors organized by the Royal Opera of Liège, Belgium, ended last weekend with no First Prize. Instead, two Second Prizes have been awarded (ex aequo) to Michele Spotti (* 1993, Italy) and Pierre Dumoussaud (*1990, France). Antoine Glatard (*1983, France) won Third Prize.
First Prize of the Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey has been awarded to 18-years-old Japanese pianist Mao Fujita. He also won the Audience Award, the Modern Times Award and the Coup de Cœur Award.
Italian basso buffo Enzo Dara died on Friday in Mantua. Born in 1938, Enzo Dara made his debut in 1960 as Colline in Puccini’s La Bohème. He quickly became famous for his buffo roles, Dulcamara (Donizetti’s Elixir of Love ), Mustafà and Bartolo (L’Italiana in Algeri and Il Barbiere di Siviglia e by Rossini), Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola and Don Pasquale in Don Pasquale. In 1971 he sung Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, directed by Claudio Abbado.
Das Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival beendet am kommenden Sonntag die diesjährige Saison mit einer Rekordbilanz: 171.000 Besucher wurden bei 191 Konzerten, fünf Musikfesten auf dem Lande und zwei Kindermusikfesten. 4000 Musikfreunde besuchten die öffentlichen Proben der Orchesterakademie und der Meisterkurse. Das teilte der Veranstalter heute mit. Die Auslastung betrug 90 Prozent. 131 Veranstaltungen waren ausverkauft.
Mit Betroffenheit reagieren das Festival Ruhrtriennale und dessen Intendant Johan Simons auf die jüngsten Strafverfolgungen der Künstler Kirill Serebrennikow und Dogan Akhanli durch Russland und die Türkei. « Wir solidarisieren uns politisch und künstlerisch mit Kirill Serebrennikow und Dogan Akhanli, die gerade zum unfreiwilligen Symbol werden, künstlerische Freiheit und freie Meinungsäußerung zu verteidigen“, so sagt Johan Simons in einem Statement. Read More →
The court decision to put Kirill Serebrennikov under house arrest is more and more criticized by various musicians and other cultural actors. The Russian-Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis, Music Director in Perm, Russia, has issued a strong statement against the Russian system of justice, and violinist Gidon Kremer did the same yesterday. Read More →
In Kooperation mit ‘Amazon Music’ präsentiert das Label ‘Deutsche Grammophon’ eine große Auswahl seiner Aufnahmen ab sofort in einem Streaming-Radiosender. Das Spektrum des Radiosenders reiche von der Renaissance bis zur gegenwärtigen Neo-Klassik, teilte DG mit. Auch ‘Amazon Prime’-Mitglieder profitieren ab sofort von der Kooperation. Sie erwartet eine kleinere Auswahl klassischer Werke zum Kennenlernen im gleichnamigen Radiosender bei ‘Amazon Prime Music’.
On Sunday, the 25th Moritzburg Festival ended with a considerable success. An average of 97% of the available tickets were sold and a total of over 6,600 guests came to the festival.
