Daniel Harding’s Tenure as Music Director of Swedish Radio Orchestra Extended

(Credit: Julian Hargreaves) The Swedish Radio Orchestra has announced that Daniel Harding will extend his post as the orchestra’s Music Director until 2025. “Since the very beginning of my conducting career, I have been surrounded by musicians, collaborators and friends of exceptional generosity, talent and wisdom. I understood very early on that important and lasting musical relationships are forged over {…}

Teatro alla Scala Announces May Streams Featuring Ildebrando D’Arcangelo & Daniel Harding

The Teatro alla Scala has announced streaming concerts for May. The first concert will be conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and will feature Ildebrando D’Arcangelo. The program will include music by Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven. Streaming Date: May 8, 2021 The second concert of the month will be conducted by Daniel Harding and will feature music by Weber and Dvořák. Streaming Date: {…}

Elena Stikhina, Christiane Karg & Ann Hallenberg Highlight Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 2020 Fall Season

(Credits: Daniil Rabovsky / Gisela Schenker / Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras official website) The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will be returning to the stage on August 28, 2020. The Orchestra has announced its fall season which will last until December 23, 2020. For the purpose of this article, we will focus only on the vocal works. Mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg will perform {…}

Peter Mattei, Malin Byström Star in Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s Live Stream of ‘Don Giovanni’

(Credit: Dario Acosta / Peter Knutson) The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will live stream Mozart and Da Ponte’s “Don Giovanni” on June 13, 2020. The opera will be performed at the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm without an audience. Daniel Harding will conduct the opera leading a cast featuring Peter Mattei in his signature title role as well as sopranos Malin Byström, {…}