Peter Eotvos, a towering Hungarian composer and conductor who linked modernist traditions in 20th-century European music and whose multifaceted work was singularly evocative, died on Sunday at his home in Budapest. He was 80. His wife, the librettist Maria Eotvosne Mezei, announced his death. Mr. Eotvos (pronounced OAT-voesh) was a
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Ukrainian Conductor Oksana Lyniv Arrives at the Met Opera
The Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv was preparing for a performance of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Metropolitan Opera this month when she saw the news: A Russian drone had hit a building in Odesa, not far from the home of her parents-in-law. She called her family to ensure they were safe.
Seiji Ozawa, longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has died at 88
Seiji Ozawa led the Boston Symphony orchestra for nearly 30 years. Boston Symphony Orchestra hide caption toggle caption Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa led the Boston Symphony orchestra for nearly 30 years. Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa, the conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra longer than any other music
Seiji Ozawa, Captivating Conductor, Is Dead at 88
Seiji Ozawa, the high-spirited Japanese conductor who took the Western classical music world by storm in the 1960s and ’70s and was music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1973 to 2002, died on Feb. 6 in Tokyo. He was 88. The cause was heart failure, said a spokeswoman
John Eliot Gardiner, Famed Conductor, Accused of Hitting Singer
The appearance by the conductor John Eliot Gardiner leading the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in southeastern France this week was supposed to be a celebration: the start of a tour across Europe by one of classical music’s most revered maestros and his esteemed ensembles. Instead, Gardiner,
The Conductor John Wilson Doesn’t Like Musical Distinctions
Wilson is a period performance specialist, but the periods he’s interested in aren’t Baroque. The John Wilson Orchestra, which he founded in 1994, and which would later bring him broader recognition through a 10-year run at the Proms, became known for “historically informed” performances of Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and
Lincoln Center Names Conductor for Reimagined Mostly Mozart
Jonathon Heyward, the rising young conductor who this fall will become the first Black music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, has been tapped to lead Lincoln Center’s summer ensemble, a reimagined version of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the center announced on Wednesday. Heyward, 30, will start a three-year
The Conductor Thomas Guggeis Is Rising Fast After a Surprise Debut
Thomas Guggeis was a young repetiteur at the Berlin State Opera five years ago when he was asked a career-changing question: Could he conduct “Salome”? He had worked with the singers, but this new production of Strauss’s opera was meant to be led by the veteran maestro Christoph von Dohnányi
Evaluate: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch
Jaap van Zweden led the orchestra after seven weeks away in works by Julia Perry, Shostakovich and Beethoven. Source link
Russian Conductor Will Not Seem With New York Philharmonic
The Russian conductor Tugan Sokhiev, who not too long ago resigned from two high-profile posts after going through stress to sentence the Russian invasion of Ukraine, will now not lead a collection of live shows with the New York Philharmonic due to the warfare, the orchestra introduced on Friday. Sokhiev,