The Met’s first Ring Cycle is completed

The first of three complete ‘Ring’ cycles, directed by Robert Lepage and staged by The Met this spring, is over. The NY Times has its say:

The first of three complete ‘Ring’ cycles, directed by Robert Lepage and staged by The Met this spring, is over. The NY Times has its say:
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music has launched a brand new Music Theatre program commencing in 2022.
Mahler’s personal copy of his 3rdand longest symphony was recently discovered in a private collection. If that isn’t exciting enough, it is notated in the composer’s hand, and is to be auctioned this week. http://gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/the-score-of-the-third-symphony-by-mahler-to-be-auctioned
Viola player Henry Justo (28), from Queensland, has won the 2023 Freedman Classical Fellowship and accompanying $21, 000 prize.
Hearty congratulations to Musica Viva CEO Mary Jo Capps who last week was awarded the degree of Doctor of Visual and Performing Arts honoris causa by the University of Melbourne, in recognition of her extensive contribution to music and the University. This is the highest honour that the university can bestow. Professor Barry Conyngham, Dean of the Faculty of VCA&MCM said,…
A rare manuscript of Sergey Rachmaninov’s second symphony, signed by the composer and containing his handwritten notes, is to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London in May, with an expected price of £1m-1.5m. According to Classical-music.com, the manuscript had been presumed lost since the 1917 revolution, when Rachmaninov fled St Petersburg with only a small suitcase of…
Víkingur Ólafsson, celebrated for his visionary interpretations of J.S. Bach, and one of the greatest pianists and musical minds of today, now takes on Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations.