ENO shuns the big screen
The move to the cinema screen is not for the English National Opera says its artistic director John Berry:
The move to the cinema screen is not for the English National Opera says its artistic director John Berry:
Pianist James Rhodes offers some refreshingly frank thoughts about the classical music industry. He claims the industry “has been divided into sharks on the one hand (anything for a buck, even if it involves bastardising the music to an unrecognisable degree) and the “purebloods” on the other – the Aryan race of the music world where…
The first manuscript in Bach’s own hand to enter the public market in 16 years, was sold in London last week, one hundred and eigty three years after it was written: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/bach-cantata-manuscript-sells-for-%C2%A3337250-at-christies-in-london
Did you know….. the Estates Theatre in Prague where Don Giovanni received its premiere on October 29th 1787, conducted by Mozart himself, still stands. It puts on regular performances of the opera in much the same way it would have been performed in Mozart’s time. Outside the theatre is an ominous looking hooded statue of Il Commendatore. The …
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There was much regret and dismay when broadcaster Graham Abbott’s iconic Saturday morning series ‘Keys to Music’ folded after a 15 year run from 2003 – 2018. The series, which Abbott wrote, produced and presented was an engaging look at the historical and musicological stories behind the development of western classical music. Stepping into this…
Images from An Evening with the Viennese Titans, held last weekend in which orchestra seventeen88 conducted by Benjamin Bayl performed the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, with solo flautist Georgia Browne. Rachael Beesley led the ensemble form the violin in the dramatic New Hall at Sydney Grammar School. Scroll down to see all four…