Liping Zhang – Puccini: Visse d’arte
Liping Zhang, one of the artists mentioned in a “Music notes” article titled China’s First Lady of Opera.
Liping Zhang, one of the artists mentioned in a “Music notes” article titled China’s First Lady of Opera.
A multimillion-euro fraud investigation and an attempted suicide have added to the drama at Salzburg’s prestigious festival
A scandal of Wagnerian proportions has engulfed Salzburg’s music festival, just weeks before Sir Simon Rattle conducts the German composer’s opera Götterdämmerung, a tale of corruption and downfall that now seems particularly apt.
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Verdi’s Don Carlo, an opera mentioned in an “In tune” article titled Carlo and Martha in Paris.
Nico Muhly, a 28-year-old composer based in New York, has been commissioned to create a fictionalized account of a British teenager who used the Internet in an attempt to arrange his own murder in 2003.
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Giuseppe Filianoti, an opera singer mentioned in an “In tune” article titled Anna, Anna, Sacrée Nana! and Paris.
Anna Nebretko, an opera singer mentioned in an “In tune” article titled Anna, Anna, Sacrée Nana! and Paris.
Ten years ago, there was chaos and inertia. Now Britain’s opera houses are world class – and its conductors have revolutionised their orchestras.
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Puccini’s Madam Butterfly, the piece mentioned in an “In tune” article titled Madam Butterfly in London.