Month: August 2022

  • Nice Ballet takes contemporary look at legend of Cassandra

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    Ballet Nice Méditerranée opens its 2022-23 season with Cassandra, choreographer Luciano Cannito’s contemporary take on the legend of the mythological heroine. Cassandra is based on the novel of the same name by Christa Wolf – the novelist and essayist who is regarded as one of the best-known writers to emerge from East Germany. According to…

  • Gramophone’s ‘Orchestra of the Year Festival’ streams online

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    For the fifth consecutive year, Gramophone hosts its Classical Music Awards, during which the 2022 Orchestra of the Year will be announced. This evening, Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year Festival will be streamed online on the magazine’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. This category, which celebrates those ensembles which have recorded some of the finest…

  • Czech Philharmonic performs on Vltava River at Prague Sounds Festival

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    As part of the Prague Sounds Festival, and in celebration of the Czech Republic’s EU Presidency this year, the Czech Philharmonic, under Chief Conductor and Music Director, Semyon Bychkov, will appear in a programme of Czech music on a floating stage on the Vltava River in Prague on 2nd September. They’ll play Dvořák’s Carnival Overture,…