Barbara Hannigan, Daring Singer and Maestro, to Lead Iceland Symphony
Hannigan, the rare artist to have a career as a soprano and a conductor, will assume a full-time conducting post for the first time.
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A Night to Remember at the Opera, Complete With a Phantom
About 130 children took part in a sleepover at Rome’s opera house, part of a campaign to make up for a lack of music education by making the theater and the art form more familiar and accessible.
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Review: An Absent Player in the Spotlight at the Philharmonic
This week’s program was supposed to feature the orchestra’s principal oboe, but he and another player have been suspended amid misconduct allegations.
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Lead in Beethoven’s Hair Offers New Clues to Mystery of His Deafness
Using powerful technologies, scientists found staggering amounts of lead and other toxic substances in the composer’s hair that may have come from wine, or other sources.