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Bampton Classical Opera – Young Singers’ Competition 2017
Sunday, November 19, 2017Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England This was the third Young Singers’ Competition convened by Bampton Classical Opera since the competition’s inception in 2013, aimed at identifying emerging...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2017-18: Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel [Showing on November 18]
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. #3: The Exterminating Angel Who...
Feature Review: Kenneth MacMillan – A National Celebration at the Royal Opera House
Concerto Company – Birmingham Royal Ballet Dancers – Momoko Hirata, Tzu-Chao Chou, Jenna Roberts, Tyrone Singleton, Delia Mathews, Arabcha Baselga, Maureya Lebowitz, Miki Mizutani, Yasao Atsuji, Feargus Campbell, Brandon Lawrence...
George Enescu International Music Festival 2017
George Enescu International Music Festival 2017 Saturday, September 2-Sunday, September 24, 2017 Bucharest, Romania Introduction The twenty-first Edition of the George Enescu International Festival, the first to take place with...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2017-18: Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte – Julie Taymor’s production, conducted by James Levine [Showing on October 14]
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. #2: Die Zauberflöte Who wrote...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2017-18: Bellini’s Norma – David McVicar’s production, with Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja; conducted by Carlo Rizzi [Showing on October 7]
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: Norma Who wrote it?...
Overture and Beginners Please [book review]
Overture and Beginners Please – An autobiography in five movements Anthya Cohen ISBN 9781542627627 Create Space The author of this memoir might well have subtitled it ‘A Family Affair’, for...
Divas: Mathilde Marchesi and Her Pupils [book review]
Divas: Mathilde Marchesi and Her Pupils Roger Neill ISBN 9781742235240 NewSouth Publishing Not enough attention is paid to teachers in the musical world, yet without them we would have no...
Feature Review: Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts 2017
Thursday, August 24-Tuesday, 29 August, 2017 The Presteigne Festival (“situated on the English/Welsh border near Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, Llandrindrod Wells and Ludlow”) offers an expansive musical feast with its accent on...
Barbara Cook (1927-2017) – An Appreciation
Barbara Cook had one of the best voices ever heard on Broadway. Largely unknown to the general public, possibly because she never appeared in a feature film and did few...
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