Opera North presents soprano Indra Thomas
PHILADELPHIA (Opera North Website) - Opera North (formerly Opera Ebony/Philadelphia) will present famed soprano, Indra Thomas, at the Trinity Center for Urban Life, 22nd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, PA on Sunday May 16, 2004, at 4:00 p.m. A reception in Ms. Thomas' honor will immediately follow ...
| Rachmaninov tops Classic FM poll
LONDON, UK (Classic Fm Website) - Rachmaninov's "Piano Concerto No 2" was yesterday declared Britain�s most popular piece of classical music - for the fourth time in a row. The Top 300 featured on Classical FM�s Hall of Fame were played over the Easter weekend. Mozart remained the most prolific of the ...
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Pavarotti leaves centre stage
NEW YORK (NY Metropolitan Opera Website) - The audience groaned when Metropolitan Opera general manager Joseph Volpe walked to the stage before the third act of Tosca. Luciano Pavarotti performed his final opera appearance in New York City's Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night. For 10 minutes after ...
| Luciano Pavarotti to become teacher
NEW YORK (Classical online magazine) - Opera star Luciano Pavarotti said he plans to become a teacher when he retires from performing in 2005. The singing legend said he plans to pass on his experience to pupils for free, and give something back to the music world. "I received a beautiful welcome to ...
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Cancer claims top soprano
NEW YORK (Classic music online magazine) - Opera singer Susan Chilcott, one of Britain's leading sopranos, has died from breast cancer, aged 40. She died at her home in Timsbury, near Bath, her family said. Miss Chilcott made her Royal Opera House debut in Covent Garden in June 2003 to enthusiastic ...
| Tenors on song at Bath concert
SOMERSET, UK (Classic online magazine) - The Three Tenors received a standing ovation from 7,000 fans at a free concert to celebrate the restored Roman baths in the British city of Bath, Somerset. Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti sang at the city's famous Royal Crescent, watched ...
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NY Philharmonic season opens Sep. 17
NEW YORK (Newyorkphilharmonic.org Official Website) - The New York Philharmonic will open its 2003-04 season Sept. 17 with a program of Verdi and Tchaikovsky that features bass Samuel Ramey. Ramey will sing arias from Verdi's "Don Carlo," "Simon Boccanegra" and "Ernani" conducted by Lorin Maazel, starting ...
| New York's oldest orchestra faces shutdown
UTICA, NY (Classical online magazine) - The Utica Symphony Orchestra, upstate New York's oldest continuing orchestra, may be forced to shut down if it does not get at least $112,000 by mid-February. "We've had some troubles before but we've never had to shut down. We are hoping to keep that streak going," ...
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Berlin Philharmonic for the first time in the USA
NEW YORK (Carnegie Hall Official Website) - Simon Rattle will conduct the Berlin Philharmonic for the first time in the United States, taking the orchestra to Carnegie Hall for three performances in November. Rattle's programs will include Gyorgy Ligeti's violin concerto, the U.S. premiere of a new ...
| Afro-Symphonic World Premiere
SAN FRANCISCO, California (OEBS Website) - The Oakland East Bay Symphony (OEBS), led by Music Director and Conductor Michael Morgan, will present the world premiere of Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa's first, full-length symphony, entitled From Our Mother. The work, co-commissioned by Yerba Buena ...
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Three Tenors in baby delay
NEW YORK (Classical news magazine) - The Three Tenors have postponed a US concert scheduled for the week in which Luciano Pavarotti's partner is due to give birth to twins. The vocal group had been due to perform on 5 January with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, ...
| Operas & Symphonies Faces Economic problems
NEW YORK (NY Classical Magazine) - Tenor Placido Domingo, who always packs the house at the Metropolitan Opera, didn't always this fall. The Lyric Opera of Chicago and the San Francisco Opera have each dropped plans to produce two operas they had announced for next season. The San Jose Symphony declared ...
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Bach videos to tempt young viewers
LONDON, UK (Classic Fm) - Classical music station Classic FM has confirmed it is to launch a classical music TV channel in an attempt to woo younger fans. The UK's biggest commercial station, Classic FM will concentrate on contemporary stars of the classical world and music from hit films. "This is ...
| San Francisco Cancels Two Operas
SAN FRANCISCO, California (SF Opera Website) - Facing a $7.7 million budget deficit, the San Francisco Opera has canceled plans for two of next season's costlier productions. Rimsky-Korsakov's "Le Coq d'Or" was scrapped, and will be replaced by a revival of Mozart's "Magic Flute." A planned production ...
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The National Symphony Orchestra Will Perform New Works
WASHINGTON (National Symphony Orchestra Official Website) - The National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin will perform the world premiere of two musical works based on dance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday. "Symphony Mo. 1: Ballet for Orchestra'' is ...
| Placido Domingo 'knighted'
WHASINGTON, DC (Classical News Website) - Opera star Placido Domingo has received an honorary knighthood at the British embassy in Washington for his contributions to music and his charity work. The Spanish tenor, who has sung more operatic roles than any tenor in history, received the award from British ...
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Franz Xaver Ohnesorg is leaving the Head post
BERLIN, Germany (Classical News Website) - The director of the Berlin Philharmonic, Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, is leaving the post after a little more than a year, citing personal reasons. Ohnesorg, who took over at Berlin's most prominent orchestra in September 2001 after two years in charge of New York's ...
| New York Philharmonic Premieres John Adams' 9/11 Commemoration
NEW YORK (J. Adamsal Official Website) - A year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, composer John Adams debuted his emotional response in the form of a classical piece titled, On the Transmigration of Souls, which had its premiere last week. The attacks last year had delayed the start of the New York ...
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A Strike Cancels NYC Mozart Concerts
NEW YORK (Lincoln Center Official Website) - Twenty concerts in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' acclaimed Mostly Mozart summer festival were canceled Monday after the orchestra voted to strike. Hours after the 42-member Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra voted to refuse to rehearse or perform ...
| Violinist Itzhak Perlman Joins St. Louis Symphony
ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, slso.org) - Violinist Itzhak Perlman will serve as music adviser to the financially troubled St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for the next two concert seasons, the symphony announced Thursday. Perlman's work with the symphony largely will be artistic and behind the ...
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