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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Pavarotti sings with friends
MODENA, Italy (Top40 Charts) - It isn't over until the fat man sings. He was hoarse, but Luciano Pavarotti didn't skip one singing engagement that is close to his heart - his annual star-studded charity concert in his hometown of Modena, Italy, Tuesday night. Pavarotti sang "Miserere" in a duet with ...
| Pavarotti (sick) Sends Fans A Letter
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - The text of a statement issued by tenor Luciano Pavarotti issued on Sunday: "I am writing, because today I have influenza, a common disease which would mean nothing were I not a tenor. This virus has unfortunately forced me to cancel two performances of "Tosca" scheduled at ...
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Domingo Dreams of Playing Composer
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Spanish Classical News) Spanish tenor Placido Domingo says he dreams of starring in a film about Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini . Domingo sees the film as focusing on Puccini's adult life, when the composer wrote his most celebrated operas including "La ...
| Eriksson launches classical album
LONDON, UK (Radio 1) - England coach Sven Goran Eriksson has launched his own compilation album of classical music at a London press conference. The Swede's album, which was released on Monday, features an even-handed array of European musical talent. Sven Goran Eriksson's Classical Favourites is a ...
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Dutoit quits as chief of Montreal symphony orchestra
MONTREAL (OSM) - Conductor Charles Dutoit, who led the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal (OSM) to international acclaim over the past 25 years, has quit, the Grammy Award-winning orchestra said Thursday. His resignation as musical director of the symphony caps a bitter personality dispute between maestro ...
| Canada's oldest symphony orchestra to turn 100
Quebec (Top40 Charts) - While many Canadian symphony orchestras are struggling, one of the oldest is doing better than ever and getting ready to celebrate its 100th anniversary this fall. In September the Toronto Symphony said it was on the verge of going broke and issued a plea to patrons and the government ...
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Verdi opera dismissed as 'silly'
LONDON, UK (Times) - A new version of Verdi's A Masked Ball at the English National Opera (ENO) has received scathing comments from some national newspapers. The opera, directed by Calixto Bieito, contains scenes of sex, violence and rape. Rupert Christiansen, the Daily Telegraph opera critic, wrote ...
| Lorin Maazel To Lead NY Philharmonic
NEW YORK (MTV) - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conductor to succeed Kurt Masur during 2002-03 season. After weeks of speculation and innuendo, the New York Philharmonic announced it would choose current Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conductor Lorin Maazel as its next Music Director. The long, ...
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Luciano Pavarotti's Mother Buried
MODENA, Italy (AP) - Adele Venturi's funeral ended Sunday with a recorded version of "Ave Maria'' sung by her son, Luciano Pavarotti. The Rev. Mauro Campani praised Venturi for her "industriousness, simplicity, delicacy, prudence and faith.'' The funeral for Venturi, 86, brought the opera star back ...
| Pavarotti makes emotional return to London stage
LONDON - Luciano Pavarotti, the world's most famous tenor, made an emotional return to London's Royal Opera House Friday, dedicating the rare performance to his mother who died in Italy just the day before. While his voice sounded strained at times and his movements were often stiff, this was more about ...
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Qualcomm CEO to give $100 mln to San Diego Symphony
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Irwin Jacobs, the founder and chief executive of wireless technology company Qualcomm Inc. , plans to give $100 million to the San Diego Symphony, making the once-bankrupt orchestra one of the richest in the country, a spokeswoman for the symphony said Friday. The donation, to ...
| 'Chubby' Pavarotti in London, coy on retirement
LONDON (Reuters) - Luciano Pavarotti, the world's most famous tenor, makes a long-awaited return to London's Royal Opera House on Friday amid mounting speculation it could be his swan song at a theater he sees as a spiritual home. With full opera appearances increasingly rare and mobility impaired by ...
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Philharmonic Season to Start With Ode
NEW YORK (AP) - Lorin Maazel will start his first season as the New York Philharmonic's music director with an unfinished ode to Sept. 11 and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The 2002-2003 season, the philharmonic's first under the 71-year-old maestro after 11 with Kurt Masur, will include four other world ...
| German Opera Singer Moedl Dies
BERLIN (AP) - German opera singer Martha Moedl, who rose to international fame with her performances of Wagner in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. She was 89. Moedl died Monday at a hospital in Stuttgart after a long illness, the Bavarian State Opera said. Born March 22, 1912 in the southern city of Nuremberg, ...
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