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It's always nice to get something for nothing, especially something as enriching as great music. And outreach projects increasingly mean that there are amazing freebies to be had. We've collated five of the best current and upcoming... -
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... -
WQXR's 'OPERAVORE' and Symphony Space Presenting Hi-Def Broadcasts from Royal Opera House
WQXR 105.9 FM, America's most listened to classical music radio station, is bringing the Royal Opera House from London’s Covent Garden to New York airwaves for the first time--presenting five operas on the silver screen in partnership... -
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... -
There's an App for That: Witold Lutosławski's Birthday Guide to Warsaw, as per Fryderyk Chopin
It's not just Verdi, Britten, 'The Rite of Spring' and Licia Albanese. Piekło, it's Polish composer Witold Lutosławski's birthday, too! -
UPDATE...AGAIN: BSO Says Christoph Eschenbach Now Out for Tanglewood, but He Might Just be Mad
When it rains in the Berkshires, well, it pours in the Berkshires... -
FREE LISTEN: Anna Netrebko Sings Verdi's "Mercè, dilette amiche" on New Deutsche Grammophon Album
Netrebko doing Verdi for DG...worth every red cent... -
Boston Symphony Orchestra Subs Carlo Montanaro for Andris Nelsons, Eric Owens for Ferruccio Furlanetto in Verdi's 'Requiem' at Tanglewood
Making both his Tanglewood and BSO debut (and putting an end, finally, to all the who-will-take-the-cursed-podium speculation), this Italian protégé of one Zubin Mehta is set to lead this Saturday's performance of Verdi's 'Requiem' -
UPDATE: Boston Symphony Orchestra's Mark Volpe, Andris Nelsons Issue Statements Regarding Verdi at Tanglewood, Concussion at Bayreuth
Andris Nelsons, the BSO's brand new Latvian conductor, was concussed by a door in Bayreuth earlier this week. Right now, he is in a German hospital--forbidden to fly to the Berkshires. -
The Column: A Classical Playlist for the Royal Baby…and Its Parents
Suddenly, all of my various social media bits and pieces, and a good deal of my Gmail inbox, are screaming at me that Princess Catherine (Kate, as she's known to most people who have never met her and aren't really on good enough terms... -
YouTube Pianist Valentina Lisitsa Letting You Choose Program for New York Recital Debut at 92Y, Prizes Also Available
As if Classicalite needed another reason to <3 Valentina Lisitsa, YouTube's native pianist has gone and given us yet another one. Sorry, make that three (3). And before you ask, no, it's not a "Pearls Before Breakfast" triplicate. -
Sporting Music for Wimbledon Champions, with the Possible Exception of Andy Murray
James Inverne celebrates a fellow Brit’s big win with some locker room listening ideas...
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