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British Bass Richard Angas Dies Suddenly, During Rehearsal for Britten's 'Peter Grimes'
Sad news from the opera world. Richard Angas, one of the leading British basses of his generation has died. Halfway through a rehearsal at English National Opera of Britten's Peter Grimes, he collapsed and was rushed to hospital... -
McDonalds Using Classical Music to Fight the Thugs
While it's always good to hear about people turning to classical music, we're not sure what to think about the news that a branch of McDonalds is to play the classics as a way of persuading local thugs to stay away. Talk about... -
Classicalite's Five Worst: Operatic Disasters
Something about the sheer heavens-defying scale of attempting to stage opera at all, about the fact that somehow it usually comes together and works against all the odds, means that the disasters are write similarly large. -
Classicalite's Five Best: Tenor Turns in Verdi Recordings
It's Verdi year, in case you hadn't noticed from all the people in the opera world rushing around shouting, "It's Verdi year!" Well, I am, but then I'm a die-hard Verdi nut. So. In honor of the big 2013 Verdi anniversary... -
EXCLUSIVE: Countertenor Iestyn Davies Responds to 'Independent on Sunday' Reviewer Lay-Offs
"Having an opinion is not enough." -- Iestyn Davies -
Violinist Gidon Kremer to Stage Protest Concert Aimed at Putin’s Russia
Protest concerts aren't exactly a new phenomenon in the classical world (Kremer apparently calls this a concert in support of Russians rather than a protest--which seems like semantics to us). Here are three from the past few years... -
EXCLUSIVE: Baritone Anthony Michaels-Moore Responds to 'Independent on Sunday' Reviewer Lay-Offs
"...if it's not an economic priority for a news organization to have a policy of informing and advising their readers about cultural events, and commentating on them, then it's not a priority for me to buy that paper." -- Anthony... -
Conductor Andrew Litton Responds to 'Independent on Sunday' Reviewer Lay-Offs
"The demise of the music critic strikes a somber knell for all musicians." -- Andrew Litton -
REVIEW: Plácido Domingo, 'Verdi' (Sony Classical)
UPDATE: It turns out that it isn't Domingo singing the tenor role in the Boccanegra Council Chamber scene. Good for the tenor Aquiles Machado, who sounds uncommonly like his more august colleague. But I'm welching on my bet... -
American Baritone Thomas Hampson’s BBC HARDtalk Interview with Sarah Montague: Tough, or Just Stupid?
The leading American baritone Thomas Hampson appears to have done his reputation no end of good (not that it needed much polishing, let’s face it) with a gracious and yet eloquent and robust defense of his art form on the BBC’s HARDtalk... -
From John Luther Adams to Mason Bates, Today's Composers "Do" the Environment
Interesting report from our friends over at San Francisco Classical Voice--and good timing, following hard on the heels of Classicalite's own missive about Paul Walde and orchestra protesting at a new ski resort from atop a glacier... -
Canadian Musicians Protest Perform Paul Wade's 'Requiem for a Glacier' Atop B.C.'s Mt. Farnham
When orchestra musicians want to protest about something, you just try stopping them, no matter how remote the location! Planners behind a mooted ski resort in Canada discovered this last weekend, when 50 musicians hiked up the Farnham... -
Min-Jin Kym's £1.2 Million Stradivarius, Stolen from a London Pret, is Finally Returned
A happy ending for a Strad stolen in England, appropriately enough at a time when Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has mounted arguably the finest exhibition of Stradivarius instruments in living memory... -
Commissioned by the BBC Proms: An Historical Playlist
From Rachmaninov's first 'Piano Concerto' in October of 1900, to the Britten 'Piano Concerto' on August 18, 1938, native son James Inverne picks a more studied Classicalite's Five Best... -
FREE DOWNLOAD: Lost Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden Collaboration, 'Roman Wall Blues,' Recorded by NMC
Recent years have seen the bringing to light of long-lost works by a storied list of composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, and Joseph Martin Kraus among them--but surely none had such serendipitous timing as the turning up of...
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