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Deutsche Grammophon has launched DG Stage – a new key feature in DG Premium. DG Stage has opened for the purchase of tickets to watch streams of a dazzling series of exclusive concerts, including Anna Netrebko starring as Tosca in a new open-air concert production from Naples, Rolando Villazón singing a
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The pause on live performances at the NCPA has been a period of brainstorming that has resulted in innovative online offerings, and the creation of a strategy for times beyond the lockdown that celebrates the live medium and widens its reach digitally. By Snigdha Hasan The beginning of March at
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A world-class lineup for Symphonic and Chamber Music Concerts To coincide with the live video stream of the Vienna Philharmonic’s subscription concert in IDAGIO’ s Global Concert Hall on June 21, 11 am CEST (2:30 pm IST), the classical music streaming platform will for the first time be
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Coronavirus is the greatest challenge our society has faced since the end of World War II. Never before has cultural life in democratic countries been curtailed so severely in peacetime. The Salzburg Festival was founded at a time of abject misery as a courageous project against the crisis. Max Reinhardt
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Many versions of the lockdown and varying degrees of concessions later, the newest addition to the COVID-19 parlance in India is the word “unlock”. It is, however, a paradox that in these strange times, viewing some form of art is what has kept us in touch with the beauty of
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The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music have launched Play On, their new online platform to support and inspire you on your musical journey. Whether you’re a teacher, learner or parent, Play On is here to entertain and inform, to connect you with others, and bring you
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Online concert venue brings artists direct revenue and offers listeners a new, interactive classical music experience IDAGIO, the leading streaming service for classical music, launches the Global Concert Hall, a new online concert venue made available to audiences worldwide. Artists and ensembles will use this audiovisual platform to offer their
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The 2020 Salzburg Festival will take place from 1 to 30 August, but in a modified and shortened form, due to coronavirus containment measures. This decision was made by the Salzburg Festival’s Supervisory Board in its special meeting on Monday afternoon. The Festival directorate of Helga Rabl-Stadler, Markus Hinterhäuser
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Responding to demand for classical music experiences, Deutsche Grammophon have launched a new online platform – DG Premium – to feature brand-new events starring DG artists and other legends of the music world, including a new digital partnership with the Bayreuth Festival for the 2020 season. Designed to connect audiences to great
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The Salzburg Festival’s directorate – President Helga Rabl-Stadler, Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser and Executive Director Lukas Crepaz – comments on initial announcements by Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler and Federal Minister Rudolf Anschober, according to which regulations for cultural events are to be gradually loosened in significant ways from June onwards. According
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The discussion regarding the death of opera has been ongoing for about 400 years. Since its birth in Italy at the turn of the seventeenth century, people have been speculating its demise. However, this art form continues to endure. Singers continue to sing, composers continue to write, and audiences continue
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Grange Park Opera, Surrey, has discovered a major work by a major composer. Sir John Tavener (1944–2013), who was the one of the most acclaimed British composers of the post-war years, completed his final opera Krishna in 2005. For 14 years it has remained in manuscript form and has