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Why Stephen Fry loves Wagner

5895 days ago
Guardian Music — It wasn't the most obvious choice in a Jewish household, but the polymath is determined to take the composer back from Nazi affiliationsI grew up in a Jewish household. My mother is certainly not religiously Jewish, but a lot of her family, and there... more info

Geoffrey Burgon obituary

5897 days ago
Guardian Music — Composer of film and television scores for Brideshead Revisited and Monty PythonThe composer Geoffrey Burgon, who has died aged 69 after a short illness, wrote some of the most memorable music for television drama of recent decades. He was also versa... more info

Phoenix Visit Kimmel, Share Wolfgang Stems

5898 days ago
Stereogum — Phoenix stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to do “Lasso” and “1901,” from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The album came out May 2009, but it feels like forever ago, except when you see it live again: The band are wrapping up a U.S. tour an... more info

Opera in a London pub aims to end elitism and high prices

5900 days ago
Guardian Music — Jonathan Miller and Joanna Lumley back opera at the King's HeadBritain is to get an unconventional new opera house – the first to open in London for 40 years – when the King's Head, the capital's first and most famous fringe venue, turns permanen... more info

In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La bohème/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet | Classical review

5900 days ago
Guardian Music — Linbury studio; Royal Opera House; Peacock theatre; Kings Place, all LondonA string quintet, two singers, one actor plus a wooden table to suggest an apparatus for torture: you can shape an opera out of anything. These were the sparse elements, tight... more info

Monteverdi's Flying Circus

5901 days ago
Guardian Music — Monteverdi was the father of modern opera. Kit Hesketh-Harvey on how he brought the composer's last days to lifeSometimes you need a grabby title simply in order to hook the moneymen. Monteverdi's Flying Circus was what Christopher Monks, the artisti... more info

Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah'

5902 days ago
Guardian Music — From Los Angeles to Lucerne, Sweden to La Scala, conductor Gustavo Dudamel tells Alan Rusbridger how he's still passionate about his mission to bring joy to the worldGustavo Dudamel's time is precious and severely rationed. Everyone wants a piece of ... more info

Nothing Better To Do, John Malkovich?

5905 days ago
Perez Hilton — When we think of the scrum-diddly-umptious men that could/should play Casanova on the stage, John Malkovich doesn't even make the loooooong list. Still, a new Austrian theater production has chosen John to play the iconic 18th-century womanizer in Th... more info

Così Fan Tutte | Opera review

5905 days ago
Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonJonathan Miller's 1995 production of Così Fan Tutte has a habit of taking Mozart's most ambivalent comedy into different emotional territory with each successive appearance, and its latest outing, opening the Royal Opera's n... more info

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, CD review

5906 days ago
The Telegraph — Daniel Behle (Tamino), Marlis Petersen (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Sunhae Im (Papagena), Anna-Kristiina Kaappola (Queen of the Night), RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, cond René Jacobs. Rating: * * * * more info

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