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Wagner @ Bayreuth: Frank Castorf's 'Rheingold' and 'Walküre' Better Than Expected
An oil-themed staging of Richard Wagner's famous 'Ring Cycle' for his bicentenary year in the opera house he built in Bayreuth showed signs on Saturday of defying predictions it would be a disaster that might even bring down the house... -
READ: Aaron Dilloway's Original Liners for the Nath Family's 'SOUNDS OF THE INDIAN SNAKE CHARMER, VOL. TWO' (Hanson)
Recorded in March, 2005 by Aaron Dilloway in Kathmandu, Nepal... -
Bryn Terfel Makes Mormon Deal with Deutsche Grammophon to Launch Snowdonia Records
Two decades after first joining Deutsche Grammophon, Bryn Terfel has signed an exclusive, long-term recording contract with the Berliners. As part of the deal, the award-winning Welsh baritone/bass has affirmed his commitment to... -
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... -
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Renews Music Director Marin Alsop's Contract Through 2021
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has announced that music director Marin Alsop will remain with the orchestra by signing a six-year contract extension, from September 2015 to August 2021--her second employment renewal with the band... -
Richard Wagner's New 'Ring Cycle' at Bayreuth [PHOTOS]
Abendzeitung, a liberal evening tabloid in Munich, has published the first photos of the latest production of Richard Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' at Bayreuth. And in our honest English opinion, they're pretty darn erstaunlich... -
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' -
"Abschied" from Stockhausen's 'Michaels Reise um die Erde' at Avery Fisher Hall (7/18/13)
From Act II of 'Donnerstag aus Licht' (1978-80) -
UPDATE: Presenting All 40 Bessie Award 2012-13 Nominees...
The office of the New York Dance and Performance Awards (that is, The Bessies Steering Committee), has announced the 40 nominees for the 2012-13 season... -
Stockhausen's 'Michaels Reise um die Erde' (7/18/13) at Lincoln Center Festival [PHOTOS]
From Act II of 'Donnerstag aus Licht' (1978-80) -
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. -
Dale Warland Inducted Into American Classical Music Hall of Fame [PHOTOS]
And then there were two in Cincinnati. Alongside the legendary Robert Shaw, Grammy-winning Dale Warland (b. April 14, 1932) is now the only other choral conductor to have be inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame... -
Off Off Broadway : Daniel Bumgardner, 'You've Got My Song: the [unauthorized] Weezer musical'
A concert narrative in dramatic form (itself after Puccini's 'Butterfly'), so far, Classicalite has published the entire first act of Daniel Bumgardner's 'You've Got My Song: The [unofficial] Weezer Musical.' And we couldn't be more proud... -
Intuitively Yours, Karlheinz Stockhausen
The Aughts were especially tough on Modernism. Starting in 2001, we lost Iannis Xenakis. In 2003, Luciano Berio passed on. Three years later, György Ligeti expired in Vienna, and two years shy of making contact, Mauricio Kagel had...
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