off the record – future directions in listening to music.
This is an interesting and useful article about how we will listen to music in years to come.
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/focus/listening-wirelessly
This is an interesting and useful article about how we will listen to music in years to come.
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/focus/listening-wirelessly
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. Click here for more.
The Met Live in HD continues to offer nightly streaming of its superlative productions. Here are this week’s performances, every evening at 7.30 pm each evening (US EDT). Watch via their website or on multiple devices through the Met Opera on Demand app. Monday, April 20: Strauss’s Elektra / With Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier and Eric…
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