Conductor Daniel Barenboim says he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The 82-year-old issued a statement Thursday ...
The maestro has appeared more frail since 2022, canceling scheduled performances that included a new production of Wagner's ...
Marin Alsop became the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms in 2013, and Simone Young has become the first woman conductor to record Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Conducting hasn’t always ...
Wagner’s 15-hour cycle is full of grandeur ... A Belated Philharmonic Debut: The renowned conductor Marek Janowski, 85, long ago gave up hope that he might conduct the New York Philharmonic.
Last night, there was the synthesis only—which takes about an hour and ten minutes to play. It makes a nice, short, compact evening of Wagner. Our conductor was Nathalie Stutzmann, the Frenchwoman who ...
Each of these artists has uniquely contributed to their respective genres and achieved remarkable recognition.
The performance ended with a standing ovation. The conductor argued that, while Wagner was undoubtedly anti-semitic, he had died long before the rise of Naziism, and his music was "too important ...
He has appeared more frail since 2022, canceling scheduled performances that included a new production of Wagner's Ring Cycle ... of working with excellent conductors going forward.