Saturday 6 September 2008 (European Central Time) Sitemap Partner Sites   International News and Reviews Classical out of fashion and out of the festival Has the Sydney Festival abandoned classical music? Or, to put it another way, has classical music become so terminally unfashionable that image-conscious publicists have run out of ways to pretend it is something it isn't? 03.01.2007 / Sydney Morning Herald New Mozart work' gets premiere A recently discovered 18th-Century keyboard work believed to be one of the earliest by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been performed in Austria. The piece - about two minutes long - was played by Florian Birsak on a harpsichord in the Salzburg Residenz. 03.01.2007 / BBC News How to avoid anniversary fatigue The big names in 2007 come from the north. It is the centenary of Edvard Grieg’s death and half a century since Jean Sibelius died. Both composers will be much heard, and usefully reassessed, in the year ahead... 03.01.2007 / La Scena Booing at the opera - over the top? Two incidents of raucously censorious opera audiences seem to have caught the public unaware in recent weeks. At the Metropolitan Opera, Placido Domingo was booed when he conducted a "La Bohème," in which Anna Netrebko sang her only Mimi of the Met season. Five days later at La Scala in Milan, Italy, Roberto Alagna, singing Radamès in Franco Zeffirelli's new production of " Aida," was greeted with catcalls at the end of his " Celeste Aida," early in Act I. Mr. Alagna beat a hasty retreat, and Antonello Palombi was thrown onstage to pinch hit. 03.01.2007 / New York Sun Opera on the big screen. Productions by the Met will be simulcast in this area and elsewhere, and they will be in high-definition. Somewhere in the maze of sneaker shops and bath-soap stores, there are going to be operas. Grand ones. The Neshaminy Mall - in a part of Bucks County that's more about suburban sprawl than the artsy, pastoral idylls of points north - is one of two places where the Metropolitan Opera will make its high-definition simulcast debut in the area at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. To read this article try: Email: info@concert-hall.com Password: proklassika2 03.01.2007 / Philadelphia Enquirer Sting rocked classical charts in 2006 NEW YORK (Billboard) - Year to year, a handful of artists tends to dominate the classical chart. ADVERTISEMENT But 2006 saw a real upset, courtesy of one unlikely "newcomer" -- Sting. The former punk rocker's first classical album, "Songs From the Labyrinth," was this year's October surprise. It ranked as the No. 1 title on Billboard's classical albums chart for 2006, and Sting led the classical artists tally. 03.01.2007 / Yahoo News Sure, 'Messiah' is a classic, but it's time to give this great piece a rest Here on the classical music beat, the Christmas season means one thing, and one thing only: Handel's "Messiah." Each year at this time, we walk in darkness and see a great light, we go astray like sheep, we break bonds asunder. Wouldn't a little change of pace be welcome? 03.01.2007 / San Francisco Chronicle Boston flute maker crafts instruments of gold and platinum BOSTON --One of the world's premier flute makers operates out of an inconspicuous two-story building that once was a carriage house and stable. It's a far cry from the elegant concert halls where many of the William S. Haynes Co.'s flutes eventually are played. To read this article try: Login: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika. 03.01.2007 / Boston Globe Bernard Haitink Named Musician of the Year NEW YORK -- The Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts announced its annual awards last night, naming Dutch conductor and recently appointed Chicago Symphony Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink as Musician of the Year. 03.01.2007 / Musical America Alagna causes shockwaves in Milan Tenor Roberto Alagna’s decision to walk off the stage at La Scala during Sunday’s performance of Aida, in protest after being booed, has caused shockwaves at the Milan opera house. 12.12.2006 / Gramophone More News (168 pages) Previous 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next All Cities Amsterdam Barcelona Berlin Bologna Brussels Budapest Chicago Copenhagen Dallas Florence Frankfurt Geneva Helsinki Houston London Los Angeles Madrid Milan Munich New York Paris Philadelphia Prague Rome San Francisco St. Petersburg Stockholm Stuttgart Sydney Tokyo Toronto Valencia Vancouver Venice Vienna Washington DC Zurich July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 47967 concerts in the database

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