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Lithuanian wins Salzburg conducting awardMonday, 30 April 2012Music lovers now have a new name to master: it is Mirga Gražintė-Tyla (pictured left), the 26 year-old from Lithuania who won the 2012 Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award at Salzburg at the weekend. With 91... Read more... |
Re-united Black Sabbath announce Birmingham gigMonday, 30 April 2012Just announced: Black Sabbath line-up of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler to play O2 Academy, Birmingham on Saturday 19 May. Tickets are on sale here from May 4th at 9 a.m.The heavy metal group formed in Aston in 1969 – and have... Read more... |
Kathleen Ferrier competition prizewinners announcedSaturday, 28 April 2012The 57th prestigious Kathleen Ferrier vocal competition, held in memory of the great British contralto, broke new ground at Wigmore Hall on Friday by awarding two prizes to the same singer. Soprano Natalya Romaniw started off by winning the... Read more... |
ENO premiere for Albarn's Dr DeeFriday, 27 April 2012Following its opening at the Manchester International Festival, the English National Opera will give Damon Albarn’s opera, Dr Dee, its London premiere in June, directed by Rufus Norris. Forming part of the London 2012 Festival, there will be eight... Read more... |
Songlines award winners announcedWednesday, 25 April 2012With the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards now axed, Songlines Magazine has become the most prestigious World Music Award going. The winners have just been announced. The winners, selected by the Songlines editorial team and listed below, are published... Read more... |
Fiennes shoots himself as DickensWednesday, 25 April 2012The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens has seen the publication of Claire Tomalin’s biography, but cinema is reverting to her earlier book The Invisible Woman to mark the bicentenary. The book is the biography of Nelly Ternan, the... Read more... |
Westport Festival of Music and Performing Arts announcedWednesday, 25 April 2012Europe's newest arts festival has been announced – in Westport, County Mayo, in the west of Ireland. The inaugural event will take place over the weekend of 23-24 June this year in the grounds of the historic Westport House.The organisers describe... Read more... |
ENO's new 2012/13 season in fullTuesday, 24 April 2012The ENO's 2012/13 season includes premieres from Philip Glass (The Perfect American) and Michel van der Aa (Sunken Garden) and nine new productions from some of today's most iconoclastic stage directors. The Verdi bicentenary begins in the UK... Read more... |
Minchin and Katy B for Somerset HouseTuesday, 24 April 2012The Summer Series, the annual concerts at London's palatial Somerset House, have announced their line-up for July 2012. It runs the gamut from Australian musical comedy performer Tim Minchin (also composer of the music to the musical Matilda) to... Read more... |
20x12: Composers Go OlympicTuesday, 24 April 2012
Southbank Centre’s current season has included weekends devoted to three contemporary giants: Pierre Boulez, Conlon Nancarrow and George Benjamin. But it closes with a festival devoted to not to one contemporary composer but 20. The New Music... Read more... |
Bryn Terfel creates Wales-on-ThamesMonday, 23 April 2012Where there used to be the Faenol Festival in north Wales, now there's BrynFest at London's Southbank Centre. From Wednesday 4 July to Saturday 7 July, burly bass-baritone Bryn Terfel will host an array of musical events in a mixture of styles,... Read more... |
Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle casts anchorMonday, 23 April 2012It graced the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and now, with the help of a public campaign, Yinka Shonibare’s Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle has been purchased for the National Maritime Museum.A public campaign was set in motion by the Art Fund in... Read more... |
