Sir Antonio Pappano received the 2024 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. He was honoured for his work as Music Director of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Pappano also shares in the Best New Opera Production award for Simon Stone’s...
Music in Time of War, the new double-album from pianist Kirill Gerstein, places the music of Komitas, pioneer of ethnomusicology and founder of the Armenian national school of music, alongside that of Claude Debussy, a seminal composer in the late 19th and early 20th...
It was announced today that Joshua Bell has extended his contract as Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF) for a further four seasons through August 2028, reasserting his commitment to the orchestra he has led since 2011. The announcement...
Conductor Natalia Ponomarchuk recently sat with Edward Docx to discuss her life and music since leaving Ukraine for a powerful feature interview in The New Statesman. Docx reports: “Ponomarchuk is one of the great Ukrainian conductors. In 2001 she was named an...
Baritone Daniel Luis De Vicente makes his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper as the title role of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, under the baton of Marco Armiliato on Thursday 11 April 2024. More information and tickets are available here. Daniel’s recent debuts...
Violinist Christian Li makes his debut with the Macao Orchestra under the baton of Lio Kuokman on Saturday 13 April 2024 at Macao’s Cultural Centre. Li will perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, with the programme also featuring Stacy...
