The 55-year-old Dutch conductor and violinist Jaap van Zweden has been announced as the incoming conductor of the New York Philharmonic. He is currently Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and succeeds Alan Gilbert, whose appointment began in 2009 and ends with the 2016–17 season.
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Nominations are open across a range of categories for the 2022 Art Music Awards.
In just under three weeks, Opera Australia’s reprise production of Wagner’s The Ring Cycle opens in Melbourne. Returning to the production from its 2013 debut, are heldentenor Stefan Vinke as Siegfried, Jud Arthur as Fafner/Hunding, Jacqueline Dark as Fricka, and Lorina Gore, Domenica Matthews and Jane Ede as the Rhinemaidens. Neil Armfield will again direct…
Italian buffo baritone Paolo Bordogna has charmed Sydney’s audiences with his singing and comedic timing, first as the Turk in The Turk in Italy, then as Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro last year and now as the ‘other’ Figaro in The Barber of Seville. Last year he released a CD of arias from the…
It’s an old adage that talent runs in families. However, there is a twist in the story of the Prokofiev family with Gabriel Prokofiev, grandson of Sergei, eschewing the purely classical tradition to write music that both incorporates and challenges western classical traditions. Now Gramophone Magazine reports that Gabriel Prokofiev has been chosen by the Birmingham…
Japanese soprano Hiromi Omura returns to the Sydney Opera House to perform the title role in five extra performances of Opera Australia’s production of Madama Butterfly in 2015. Ms Omura was an impressive ‘Butterfly’ when she first sang the role in Sydney in Moffatt Oxenbould ‘s 2012 production. She returned in 2013 to sing the role…