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San Francisco Opera to present three American world premieres in 2013 – Jan 18, 2012
San Francisco Opera announced its 2012-13 season Tuesday, and unveiled plans for three world premieres next year, all by American composers. The three new [...]
Netrebko’s debut, Fleming as Blanche, and a Wagner spectacle on tap in Lyric Opera’s 2012-13 season – Jan 17, 2012
The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 58th season will bring a varied and well-balanced lineup featuring Richard Strauss’s Elektra, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, Massenet’s Werther, a double shot [...]
Boston Symphony broadcasts to be aired on Classical New England network – Dec 30, 2011
The Boston Symphony Orchestra and WGBH will now collaborate in airing BSO broadcasts on Classical New England outlets The announcement made before Christmas was [...]
Opera Boston turns out the lights – Dec 23, 2011
Opera Boston announced that it would cease operations due to “an insurmountable budget deficit,” in a statement released Friday morning. Board chair Winifred P. [...]
Lyric Opera appoints Renée Fleming’s press rep as director of public relations – Dec 10, 2011
The Lyric Opera of Chicago announced late Friday that Alexandra Day has been appointed to the newly created position of director of public relations. [...]
Long Beach Opera’s Andreas Mitisek tapped to succeed Brian Dickie at Chicago Opera Theater – Dec 07, 2011
If there were fears that Chicago Opera Theater would go artistically conservative in its selection of a new general director to succeed Brian Dickie, [...]
Steinway debuts interactive iPad app for learning piano and buying music – Sep 17, 2011
Steinway & Sons has debuted version 2.0 of the Etude app for the Apple iPad. This upgraded version of Etude is interactive with new [...]
Salvatore Licitra dies after accident – Sep 07, 2011
Salvatore Licitra has died after nine days in a coma following an accident in which the tenor’s scooter crashed into a wall in Southern [...]
Boston Classical Review to debut in September – Aug 15, 2011
I am very happy to announce that we will open up our third regional music website next month when we launch Boston Classical Review. [...]
Loretta Dranoff dies, founder of two-piano festival – Jul 08, 2011
Loretta Dranoff, the 89-year-old founder of the Murray Dranoff International Two-Piano Competition, died Monday, July 4 in New York City. She had been suffering [...]
