Kaufmann Withdraws From ‘Carmen’ At Covent Garden Due To Illness
Jonas Kaufmann has cancelled his two performances as Don Jose in Carmen at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden due to illness. His place will be taken by Italian tenor Andrea Carè.
Jonas Kaufmann has cancelled his two performances as Don Jose in Carmen at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden due to illness. His place will be taken by Italian tenor Andrea Carè.
The impossible to define and prodigiously talented pianist Sally Whitwell has defied all predictions with the success of her cutting edge CD “Mad Rush” – the solo piano works of Philip Glass. (See our feature and audio of an interview with Sally Whitwell). “Mad Rush” entered the top 5 of the Aria Classical charts and has stayed…
If you’re visiting the United Kingdom this northern summer and you’re an aficionado of the violin, a day trip out of London to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum could just be your idea of heaven as it puts on display 21 instruments created by the master craftsman Antonio Stradivari (c.1644–1737). Stradivari didn’t only make violins – he made…
The ABRSM in the UK (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) has announced a major teaching initiative aimed at introducing primary school children in England to classical music. The ABRSM’s ‘Classical 100’ is an online resource supported by Decca and UK’s Classic FM, based on a list of 100 works that it believes are…
Sydney Eisteddfod is taking 17 contenders through to Round 2 of its Crowd Favourites competition, after which 8 finalists will be revealed. Voting closes at midnight on Wednesday 14 October. The contenders in this round are: The Longest Time – Edward Langford/ A Quiet Thing – Siobhan Lynch/ Rescue – Brooke Henderson Dance Studios/ Piano Trio in D…
A decade after Nicholas Routley, the founding director of the Sydney Chamber Choir has left the ensemble he created, there is still a powerful nexus between them. Talking about the choir’s upcoming 40th anniversary concert this weekend, which he will conduct, Nicholas Routley muses “I don’t know whether to say ‘we’ or ‘they’ since I…
The music of Philip Glass is in the spotlight with the ABC Classics release of “Mad Rush” an anthology of his piano music, performed by Sally Whitwell. To talk about minimalism requires perhaps that this page be left blank with just a few pivotal words placed strategically in repetitive patterns ….. Right now though, we use words…