Category: music

Lissner, currently superintendent of La Scala, will be taking the reins of the Opéra National de Paris next August, one year before his contract had originally stipulated. Outgoing director Nicolas Joël decided to step down in the wake of budget cuts.

“Police in England and Wales paid £660,952 for licences so staff could listen to music in offices in the past year, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. But does music played at work help or hinder employees?”

“Eighty-four percent reported experiencing pain that interfered with their performance at some point in their career. Precisely half the players “reported experiencing current pain during performance.”

The orchestra’s music director “is easing his deadline for a restart of rehearsals as part of the drive to end the orchestra’s lockout of musicians, and by extension, his threat to resign.”

“Over the past two decades, the frenzied turnover of general and musical directors has caused major unrest. Its constantly changing roster of directors exploited the orchestra in order to carry out weird experiments, before leaving or being asked to leave their posts.” Now the 70-year-old Talmi, back for his third stint as music director, will try to stabilize the ICO.

There were at least a few to choose from…

“No great disaster led to this decision. There was simply a feeling, in rehearsals, that some of the toughest passages of this notoriously tough role — like the famous intoxicating climax of Act II — weren’t coming as well as she wanted. “

“‘How can you have a concert in a walled garden, surrounded by rings and rings of security?’ said the novelist Mirza Waheed, one of several Kashmiri cultural figures who protested the event. ‘The entire idea sort of collapses that this is a concert for peace. The people are not invited. It is as simple as that.'”

Probably. But what’s the fix?

Guess what? Marin Alsop conducted the last night of the Proms. That’s the first time a woman has closed out the event in its 118-year history.