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Yvonne Loriod, pianist and Messiaen's wife, has died
The opportunity to observe Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic rehearsing Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony in January 1988 with the composer present was too good to pass up. Yet time and again the 63-year-old piano...
19th May 2010
LPO extends principal conductor Jurowski's contract
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has extended the contracts of both its principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski and its principal guest conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The positive feeling among London concert-goers about the Jurowski/LPO relationship, which began with the...
18th May 2010
Italian opera houses strike following government cuts
The mayor of the city of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, is the latest to add his voice to a chorus of disapproval among musicians and theatre workers following government reform of state-supported opera houses and orchestras approved...
18th May 2010
Savitri staged in the Berghain techno club
Every weekend, Berlin’s most fabulous young things head to Berghain, where Berlin's most celebrated DJs spin way past dawn. For two nights last week, however, the world renown techno club housed in a former power plant,...
18th May 2010
The BBC launches a major opera season
"Opera on the BBC", a cross-network focus on music’s most glamorous art-form has been launched today with a performance on Radio 3 of Bellini’s La sonnambula with Natalie Dessay in the title-role. Television channels BBC Two...
13th May 2010
Covent Garden to broadcast the first opera in 3D
With all the new innovations in bringing opera to new audiences, including the high-definition cinema showings led by Glyndebourne and the Metropolitan Opera, it has been wondered for some time whether 3D might follow. Now the...
13th May 2010
Philharmonia wins twice; Langridge remembered
This year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, which focus on excellence in live classical music in the UK, took place on the final evening of negotiations between the country’s three main political parties as to the make-up...
12th May 2010
Giulietta Simionato - Obituary
Giulietta Simionato - who died in Rome on May 5, a week before her 100th birthday - had abandoned the stage some 44 years earlier, but for decades afterwards her presence was strongly felt in Italian...
7th May 2010
Listen to the London Philharmonic – for free
The London Philharmonic Orchestra today launched an on-demand concert streaming service that allows people to enjoy their concerts for a fortnight. Accessed either by the web or via the LPO iPhone app, complete concerts can be...
6th May 2010
The LSO joins the B&W Society of Sound
The London Symphony Orchestra has joined the Society of Sound, a music ‘club’ that offers members a series of recordings of each year. The Society will be jointly curated by Peter Gabriel and his Real World...
6th May 2010
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