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| Workers at Milan's famous opera house La Scala have gone on strike, leading to a performance of Verdi's Requiem to be cancelled.
La Scala, one of the world's best-known concert venues, apologised on its website for the cancellation.
The 800 workers, including 135 musicians and 107 in the chorus, walked out in a row over pay and contracts.
They last went on strike in 2005 in protest at musical director Riccardo Muti, who later resigned.
La Scala's workers want salary increases and better working schedules, arguing that between 2001 and 2007 the number number of performances staged had increased from 164 to 273. |
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| 12.11.2007 / BBC News |
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| Just as a strike breaks out at La Scala, the management of another august European company, the Opéra de Paris, has received notice of a new strike to begin next week.
This work stoppage, set to begin at 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 14, will be the second labor action against the Opéra in less than a month. Five days of walkouts at the very end of October by technical staff caused the cancellation of ten performances and cost the company €2.2 million.
Three of the national unions involved — Sud, FO and the FSU — have called for a strike running November 14-30, according to Agence France-Presse. The CGT, a major federation of trade unions and the largest organization taking part, has planned daily walkouts, renewable indefinitely, beginning on the 14th. |
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| 12.11.2007 / Play Bill |
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| They're calling it by a code name, Project Niagara. A more revealing name would be Tanglewood North.
You have not heard about it before because no one is ready to announce anything.
But the National Arts Centre and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra are joining forces to create a major new summer music festival and tourist attraction.
It will be located not in Toronto or Ottawa but in Niagara, where it should make beautiful synergy with the Shaw Festival and Canada's most fruitful wine country. |
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| 12.11.2007 / Toronto Star |
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| Germany’s cultural power-brokers yesterday piled the pressure on the 88-year-old grandson of Richard Wagner in the hope of persuading him to step down from the helm of the Bayreuth Festival, one of the world’s greatest musical events.
The man at the centre of the storm is Wolfgang Wagner, who has run the festival since 1966. Since the death of the composer the festival, on the so-called “Green Hill” of Bayreuth, in Bavaria, has been managed by a member of the clan. |
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| 12.11.2007 / The Times Online |
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| MUSIC-MAKING will more than double in Victoria when the $75 million Melbourne Recital Centre now under construction in Southbank is completed in just over a year.
Details of the artistic program were announced in the nearly completed 150-seat Salon in the centre yesterday, followed by the first recital in the space by baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, who wore a blue singlet and fashion-designed hard-hat as he sang unaccompanied Click Go the Shears.
He later described the venue's acoustics as fantastic. |
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| 12.11.2007 / The Age (Melbourne) |
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| Jeffrey Tate will become the new principal conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, replacing Andrey Boreyko, who quit unexpectedly for reasons unclear, reports Die Welt of Berlin. |
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| 12.11.2007 / Play Bill |
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| There is too much jeopardy on television right now; too many journeys, and far too much ritual humiliation. The chief culprits are programmes designed to discover "new talent". The X Factor is one example, but at least the poor contestants know that they are likely to be insulted, and that, in any case, popular entertainment is a pretty fickle business. As a classical musician, teacher and conductor, I find another show, BBC2's Classical Star, a much more destructive animal altogether....To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 12.11.2007 / The Guardian |
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| WHILE rummaging through the secondhand department of a Viennese music store many years ago I came across an unusual copy of Samuel Barber’s four-act opera “Vanessa”: one of those rough photocopies used by singers when they are learning their roles for a new work. There were light pencil marks here and there, mostly in the title character’s part. “Hmm,” I thought. “Sena Jurinac must have been cleaning out her closets.”... To read this article try: ID Login: opus1classical Password: proklassika |
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| 12.11.2007 / New York Times |
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| SIMON says it is the most important thing happening in classical music in the world. "Simon" is Simon Rattle, music director of the Berlin Philharmonic. "It" is El Sistema, the youth orchestra program in Venezuela.
"It" might also describe the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the cream of a 250,000-student crop, which began its first U.S. tour at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night under its music director, Gustavo Dudamel. And if this incredible orchestra hits San Francisco, Boston and New York with the same revelatory effect as at the first Disney concert, our country, with its poor music education, may never -- should never -- be the same. |
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| 12.11.2007 / LA Times |
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| ASKED to name the flagship orchestra of Russia, many people would answer the Kirov, helmed by the indefatigable Valery Gergiev. He and his players, after all, have received considerable media attention for, among other things, presenting Wagner's "Ring" cycle in the U.S., including at the Orange County Performing Artscenter. |
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| 12.11.2007 / LA Times |
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