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Joyce DiDonato and other winners of the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015

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Joyce DiDonato is this year’s winner in the Vocal category of the BBC Music Magazine Awards. This is the tenth edition of the awards which are voted for by readers of BBC Music Magazine and classical music lovers around the world. DiDonato won for her album Stella di Napoli. The Magazine’s five-sate review stated, Joyce DiDonato’s love letter […]

Natalie Dessay to say ‘addio’ to opera

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I want to change my life – I want to go into straight theatre. Natalie Dessay announced to Examiner.com’s Sean Martinfield. After the summer Dessay is slated to sing Massenet’s Manon in Toulouse, and it could well be her adieu to the operatic stage. I did my real début in Toulouse, in the chorus. I had started off as […]

Peter Gelb’s tyranny gets struck down by Met Opera fans

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After the Metropolitan Opera chief Peter Gelb had forbidden his house magazine, Opera News, to review Met performances in the future (because an editorial had the cheek to comment negatively on some Met decisions) the management has done an abrupt about face, and issued the following statement: In view of the outpouring of reaction from […]

Natalie Dessay pulls out of next month’s Manon performances at La Scala “for health reasons” – Netrebko takes over

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Natalie Dessay was forced to cancel, even mid-performance, performances of La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera last month, where she was replaced by soprano Hei-Kyung Hong. The conductor was Fabio Luisi, the Italian maestro heavily tipped to take over from the ailing James Levine. Now at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala she has withdrawn from performances of Manon which […]

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