Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the youngest knight ever created? And what did the adult knights think of the appointment?!
Today’s The Australian reports on Vatican documents dating back to 1770 in which Pope Clement XIV awarded Mozart the Chivalric Order of the Golden Spur. More at…
The Met Opera has been brightening the lives of our audience members even while their stage is dark. Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT…
Here are the upcoming nightly opera streams from the Met: Thursday, June 4 – Puccini’s Tosca with Pavarotti Friday, June 5 – Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, conducted by Adès Saturday, June 6 – Verdi’s Otello with Sonya Yoncheva Sunday, June 7 – Massenet’s Thaïs with Renee Fleming Each stream becomes available at 7:30PM EDT…
After 7 concerts in 12 nights Penny Durham, in The Australian takes a look at David Robertson’s inaugural tour of China with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Oh the joy of a serendipity….of discovering a lost score long after its composer is no more. This is the story of Igor Stravinsky’s 1908 piece, Pogrebal’naya Pesnya (Funeral Song) written in memory of his teacher, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, shortly after Rimsky’s death in June that year. The 12-minute work was performed only once, in a Russian symphony…
Sydney has a new vocal ensemble Castalia, which makes its debut this weekend.
Here it is: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/virtuosity-comes-as-excellence-and-parody-20111202-1ob0l.html Were you there? Tell us what you thought!