Ballet Icons Gala 2025 arrives at the London Coliseum in March
On 9 March 2025, the Ballet Icons Gala will fulfil its annual promise of presenting dancers from across the world to the London public.
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UK musicians post Brexit: pawns on a chessboard
Demands mount for UK to renegotiate Brexit decision requiring performers to apply for touring visas; here’s what musicians and politicians are saying.
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Behind every great woman is a great man: the man being conductor Fabio Luisi and the woman his photographer wife Barbara
Barbara Luisi was, no is, a violinist, but her passion for photography has taken over and her hobby has become her major activity. Though she begun studying the violin at 9 in her home town, Munich, she also started photography at a relatively young age, experimenting with her first Leica at 17. Luisi worked with orchestras such as the…
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Pacific Northwest Ballet’s conductor on the best ballet orchestra in the US
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s conductor, Emil de Cou, talked to The SunBreak: On ballet “What I love about ballet is the collaboration between the dancers and the music. The conductor and the company members have to work together extremely closely. I have to learn the steps (that they are dancing), but it’s most important to get to know…
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James Levine cancels his next performances at the Met
The end of an era: James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera‘s musical director and principal conductor, has cancelled his fall performances. According to the Met’s press release, Levine suffered a fall last week that damaged a vertebrae and underwent emergency surgery on Thursday in New York. Levine was to begin rehearsals with the orchestra today. The accident occurred…
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Barenboim conducts a concert in the Gaza Strip
Daniel Barenboim, a supporter of Palestinian rights, broke new ground on Tuesday when he traveled to the Gaza Strip to conduct a concert. Musicians from some of Europe’s top orchestras entered the coastal enclave from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing amid tight security, to form the “Orchestra for Gaza” and play Mozart’s “Eine Kleine…
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Fabio Luisi’s moving house – but will Jimmy Levine be moving out?
Fabio Luisi is moving to New York. He and his wife, Barbara Luisi, a former violinist and now a photographer, and their 13-year-old son are moving to New York in May, to an apartment on West 96th Street. Luisi has reduced his schedule at the Vienna Symphony and declined to extend his contract as chief…
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James Levine – time to pass the baton?
For seven years, James Levine has been splitting his time three ways: leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra, presiding over the musical side of the Metropolitan Opera, and sitting out large chunks of both institutions’ seasons in alternating bouts of pain and recovery. Says Justin Davidson in New York Magazine. Levine has had sciatica, a hand tremor,…
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