Le Grand Rex in Paris will screen Handel’s Ariodante on Monday 30 June, with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, filmed for cinema with 7.1 sound.
A standing ovation at La Scala for William Christie and Les Arts Florissants’ hip-hop flavoured version of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen.
The 2023-2024 Opera Season of the Teatro alla Scala will present 14 productions, 10 of which are new, with a predominantly Italian repertoire.
Q&A When did you start singing? I can’t ever remember I time when I didn’t sing. Why did you start singing? I can’t remember the first “why” but there exists now a definite need to do it. Which singer inspired you most when you were young? Barbra Streisand. Which singer do you most admire? Ella…
Actress Harriet Walter, who has been made a dame in the New Year Honours, has enjoyed a distinguished career on stage and screen spanning three decades. Dame Harriet, the niece of Sir Christopher Lee, trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before beginning a long association with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her…
The nominees are out for the 2010 Grammy Awards. But under the heading “Best Classical Crossover Album” – not usually my favourite category – is the nomination which makes me the happiest: with a voice full of imperfections and oddities here is a glorious Jessye Norman with her double live CD “Roots – My Life,…
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