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Classical music festival fails to pay its performers
Matthew Bell: Musicians, caterers and other suppliers are among those still owed tens of thousands of pounds by the organisers of Serenata.
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Lost choral masterpiece finally finds a home... in the pop charts
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Rob Sharp: Alessandro Striggio's 1566 mass, performed by 40 choristers, sees voices, strings and brass meld into a jaw-dropping harmony.
Pub opera takes on the world's finest at Oliviers
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Opera is gearing up for a David and Goliath battle as a production first performed to 35 people in a pub takes on the collaborative might of five international companies at the stage's answer to the Oscars. Opera UpClose's La Bohème is nominated alongside Adriana Lecouvreur, lavishly staged at the 2,200-seat Royal Opera House, in the best new opera production category at next Sunday's Olivier Awards.
'Les Mis' orchestra told to apply for own jobs
Friday, 18 February 2011
Rob Sharp: It is a confrontation as passionate as anything seen between Javert and Jean Valjean, pitting Cameron Mackintosh against the orchestra of Les Misérables, one of the theatre impresario's biggest successes.
Mozart Unwrapped, OAE/Bevan/Bezuidenhout/Cohen, Kings Place (Rated 2/ 5 )
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Having just praised the Wigmore Hall for bravely flying the flag during most schedulers’ dead-time at Christmas, I must now give a similar accolade to London’s new chamber venue in the wilds of Kings Cross – Kings Place.
Blue plaque at London home of a Victorian Simon Cowell
Monday, 13 December 2010
He was the very model of a modern major impresario, the driving force behind the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and founder of the Savoy Hotel.
ENO under fire for 'Don Giovanni' rape scene
Monday, 29 November 2010
It is the story of an immoral Lothario, a tale which begins with sexual violence and ends with divine justice. You'd have thought seasoned opera-goers would be well prepared for the exploits of Don Giovanni. But that hasn't stopped a new production from being accused of "shock tactics" by suggesting scenes involving gang rape.
Cocker to narrate 'Peter and the Wolf'
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is turning to classical music, as the narrator of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
Gorecki, famed composer of symphony of sorrow, dies
Saturday, 13 November 2010
The Polish composer Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, famous for his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, including one about a woman held prisoner by the Gestapo, has died following a serious illness. He was 76.
From a mental ward to classical music's new star
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Rob Sharp: James Rhodes's six-album deal completes a remarkable journey.
Royal Opera House shelves move north
Thursday, 28 October 2010
The proposed £100m outpost of the Royal Opera House (ROH) in Manchester is among a swathe of arts projects that have been shelved because of the arts-funding cuts announced earlier this week.
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