May 2024
Festivals Preview
Welcome to our Festivals Preview Issue, complete with a detailed Festivals Spotlight and Festivals Directory.
Our front cover artist is Lise Davidsen, as Leonora in La forza del destino at the Metropolitan Opera.
May 2024
Welcome to our Festivals Preview Issue, complete with a detailed Festivals Spotlight and Festivals Directory.
Our front cover artist is Lise Davidsen, as Leonora in La forza del destino at the Metropolitan Opera.
Skanderbeg Monument, Tirana. There’s an opera house right here that would be very happy if the lost score of Vivaldi’s opera Scanderbeg was rediscovered. Meanwhile, here’s Sonia Prina singing a surviving aria from it: https://youtu.be/hAHkLDqsNRE?si=I39qvtvhFkhm2Xqg
Hitting the high notes with a prominent brand of Albanian petrol stations.
Musicians' Union @WeAreTheMU
members in the orchestra of @WelshNatOpera are facing a reduction in working weeks, equating to a 15% pay cut as a result of a funding shortfall for the company.
MU Responds to Welsh National Opera Cuts
Musicians' Union members in the orchestra of Welsh National Opera (WNO) are facing a reduction in working weeks, e...
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Wishing the director @kasperholten a very happy birthday!
@kglteater @RoyalOperaHouse
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