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The Bayreuth Festival will have three female conductors this summer, three years after the podium gender barrier was broken at the annual showcase of Richard Wagner’s operas

The Bayreuth Festival will have three female conductors this summer, three years after the podium gender barrier was broken at the annual showcase of Richard Wagner's operas. The festival said Thursday that Simone Young will conduct “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)” following the cancellation of Phillipe Jordan. Young, a 62-year-old Australian, is in her second season as chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra following positions as principal cond...

Introducing the January 2024 issue of Gramophone, our Bruckner 200th anniversary special

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents Vienna Boys Choir – Christmas in Vienna on Friday, December 8, 2023 at 8:00pm. Christmas in Vienna showcases these gifted musicians in a program featuring Austrian folk songs, classical masterpieces, popular songs, and holiday favorites. Tickets range from $29-$69.

ROB KENNEDY reviews a performance at Sydney Opera House of violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s administration, so financially embattled during the pandemic, stood down its musicians in 2020 to avoid bankruptcy. The same orchestra now offers discount tickets for Aboriginal patrons, plus those of Iroquois, Itza, Inuit and any other what-have-you descent. It is a tokenistic, infantilising and totally reprehensible gesture

If Australian opera is to have a worthwhile future, craft, style and quality are essential. That artistic merit should be trumped by quotas and chromosomes is laid out in a recent paper, Risky Business: Policy Legacy and Gender Inequality in Australian Opera Production. Have the authors never heard of Simone Young, our greatest living conductor?

When three Australians appear on the same bill at one of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, it’s an occasion worthy of celebration.

Natomas went up against Cordova in KCRA 3's High School Playbook of the Week.

One of the most famous choirs in the world, the Vienna Boys Choir has been enchanting audiences for centuries with their pure and pristine sound and charming performance style. These gifted musicians with voices of unforgettable beauty are a beloved …