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Not Bayreuth: Beirut has an opera festival
52+ min ago (86+ words) The Beirut International Opera Festival & Competition will be held on September 8 and 9. An open-air gala concert will feature Grammy-winner Marina Viotti (pictured), the Beirut Soloists, tenor Ambroise Divaret and a symphony orchestra conducted by Fernando Afara. The following day, Viotti…...
San Francisco gives Englishman five more years
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (76+ words) The San Francisco Opera board has given general director Matthew Shilvock five more years, taking him to 2031. The new contract starts August 1, 2026, which is cutting it a bit fine. Shilvock, 50, has been in the job for 10 years. The death has…...
Cio-Cio-San Flutters again
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (111+ words) The Plot: when young geisha Cio-Cio-San marries American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton in Nagasaki, Japan, she believes they are making a binding promise for life. Soon after, Pinkerton departs for the US. Years pass with no sign of his return,…...
Death of a stalwart Met musician
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (124+ words) The composer, conductor and chorus singer Robert Manno has died at the age of 82, his family has announced. Manno was a baritone in the Met Chorus from 1977 to 2001, and subsequently assistant conductor to James Levine. His wife, the violinist Magdalena…...
How the Vienna Phil fluffed Mahler's 2nd at Salzburg
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (86+ words) Fresh from his dubious exposure at President Trump’s World Cup, Gustavo Dudamel stepped up to lead the Vienna Philharmonic in Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony at its opening concert of the Salzburg Festival. The Salzburger Nachrichten reported the performance was ‘plagued…...
The concertmaster who pilots a Boeing for United Airlines
1+ week, 1+ day ago (101+ words) First Officer Netanel Draiblate is enterting his 17th season as concertmaster of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. When he’s not leading the orchestra, Netanel is flying a Boeing 737 for United Airlines. Here’s a CNN report. This could become a trend. Netanel, 43, was…...
Boston Symphony hits panic button as Tanglewood warns visitors off wearing red
1+ week, 3+ day ago (236+ words) Wearing red flowers has been for the past four months a symbol of the campaign in support of the Boston Symphony’s sacked music director Andris Nelsons. It has been spreading across the summer festival campus. Now the orchestra’s beleaguered management…...
Award-winning British composer dies at 26
1+ week, 4+ day ago (99+ words) The Royal Philharmonic Society has announced the death of the composer Asteryth Sloane, who was blind from the of two. Sloane, who was born in Suffolk in 2000, won the 2016 Cambridge Young Composer of the Year, followed by a Classic FM…...
Can a British orchestra play Bruckner?
2+ week, 3+ day ago (69+ words) Deutsche Welle is testing the prejudices of its core audience by uploading a performance of Bruckner’s 7th by the London Symphony Orchestra. The accompanying programme note mentions the composer’s iconic status under the Nazi regime. Amid an ongoing struggle to secure…...
Seattle signs Malaysian conductor
3+ week, 1+ day ago (76+ words) This may be a first for a developing nation. The Malaysian Tengku Irfan, who started out winning an international piano competition, has been appointed assistant conductor at the Seattle Symphony. His professional baton experience has been confined mostly to the…...