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Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2014-15: Verdi’s Macbeth with Anna Netrebko, Željko Lučić, Rene Pape & Joseph Calleja [Showing on Saturday October 11]
The Classical Source once again brings you a handy guide to all ten of the Metropolitan Opera productions included in this season’s international broadcast series. #1: Macbeth Who wrote it?...
Feature Review: Lahti Sibelius Festival 2014 – Original Sibelius [Okko Kamu, Ilya Gringolts, Folke Gräsbeck; 4-7 September 2014]
Ilya Gringolts (violin) Folke Gräsbeck (piano) Lahti Symphony Orchestra Okko Kamu Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland Thursday-Sunday, 4-7 September, 2014 Before I begin my thoughts on "Original Sibelius" may I mention...
Carlo Bergonzi (1924-2014) – The Greatest?
There have been many fine – yet very few great – spinto Italian tenors, but if I were asked to choose one for the desert island, then it would be...
Remembering Sandy Wilson, composer of The Boy Friend
The name of the English composer and lyricist Sandy Wilson, who has died aged 90 (on 27 August 2014), will always be indelibly associated with his show The Boy Friend...
Happy Birthday Dear Leonard… Classical Source is delighted to send 70th-Birthday Greetings to its Patron and contributor, Leonard Slatkin
Monday 1 September 2014 – The Classical Source is delighted to send 70th-Birthday Greetings to its Patron and contributor, Leonard Slatkin. Following are some best-wishes (after today, and to publish...
Remembering great talents: Richard Attenborough, Lauren Bacall, Dora Bryan, Robin Williams
The performing arts have lost many notable practitioners in recent weeks with the passing of Richard Attenborough, Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall and Dora Bryan. Michael Darvell remembers them within the...
A New Thought on Applause [written by Leonard Slatkin]
Classical Source welcomes Leonard Slatkin – music director in Detroit and Lyon – who has sent us the following article, his second such, which we happily publish as a talking...
Tributes to Lorin Maazel (1930-2014) – from Edward Clark, Plácido Domingo, JoAnn Falletta, Tony Faulkner, Gillian Moore, David Whelton, and the New York Philharmonic, Orfeo, and the Salzburg Festival
Maestro Lorin Maazel 6 March 1930-13 July 2014 Edward Clark, President of the UK Sibelius Society Lovers of Sibelius’s music have much to thank Lorin Maazel for. In the 1960s...
Remembering Elaine Stritch (1925-2014)
Actress, singer, cabaret artist and raconteur Elaine Stritch died at her home in Birmingham, Michigan on 17 July 2014. She was 89. She had not long retired and only last...
Feature Review – English Haydn Festival 2014
Tuesday 3 June-Sunday 8 June, 2014, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England This year’s feast of Haydn again presented a combination of orchestral and chamber concerts. Where Symphonies are concerned the current philosophy...
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