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LIVE STREAM: Jamie Barton Singing Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at Aspen Music Festival

Upon the news of Jamie Barton's double victory at the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World--the mezzo won both the main award and the song prize, quite a rare feat--the Aspen Music Festival and School tore up its schedule to get the...
WQXR's 'OPERAVORE' and Symphony Space Presenting Hi-Def Broadcasts from Royal Opera House

WQXR 105.9 FM, America's most listened to classical music radio station, is bringing the Royal Opera House from London’s Covent Garden to New York airwaves for the first time--presenting five operas on the silver screen in partnership...
Composer Stephen Paulus Remains Unresponsive After Stroke, Says Publisher

"As more information about Stephen's health becomes available, Paulus Publications will continue to provide updates to our community."
Wouldn't You Like to Play with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra?

Be it her El Sistema-inspired OrchKids or her more adult-oriented initiatives like the BSO Academy and Rusty Musicians, freshly extended Balitmore Symphony Orchestra maestra Marin Alsop is changing the definition of what an orchestra...
Pablo Heras-Casado Replaces Injured Pierre Boulez at September's Lucerne Festival

Due to a fracture in his shoulder, Pierre Boulez will not be able to not hold a baton to conduct his two scheduled concerts at September's Lucerne Festival...
New and Improved: Classicalite Digest, Vol. 5

OK, good and faithful Classicalites--put down your phones and tablets. The latest edition of the Classicalite Digest (Volume 5, that is) is out now...
Cartoon Trivia with Léo & Péri

Léonin (b. 1150?) was the first-known composer; Pérotin (b. 1200??) was the second-known composer. Having known so little about them, though, we've since dubbed the pair the patron saints of Classicalite's Cartoon Trivia with...
EXCLUSIVE: Timo Andres Plays Mozart's 'Coronation' Cadenza

Hear how Timo Andres crowned his own cadenza to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K. 537 (i.e. "Coronation")...
Forbes Lists Valery Gergiev, at $16.5 Million a Year, as Russia's Highest-Paid Musician

In [post]-Soviet Russia, Valery Gergiev makes more than YOU! In [post]-Soviet Russia, Valery Gergiev makes more than YOU! According to the Russian bureau of Forbes, with an estimated 2011-12 salary of $16,500,000, the richest Russian musician is, in fact, Valery Gergiev.
EXCLUSIVE: Timo Andres, 'Anxiety of Influence' @ Housing Works Books

Classicalite's top three antonyms to describe Andres' supposed anxiety: ease, composure and assurance.
Door Still Open for Concussed Andris Nelsons to Conduct 'Lohengin' at Bayreuth

(Wait..so does that mean said door is closed now?) The brass at Bayreuth have confirmed that recently concussed conductor Andris Nelsons will indeed keep his Friday appointment with Lohengrin.
There's an App for That: Witold Lutosławski's Birthday Guide to Warsaw, as per Fryderyk Chopin

It's not just Verdi, Britten, 'The Rite of Spring' and Licia Albanese. Piekło, it's Polish composer Witold Lutosławski's birthday, too!
Lucasfilm Confirms John Williams Will Score 'Star Wars: Episode VII'

Over the weekend, at the Star Wars Celebration Europe in Germany, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy announced that--one more time, with extra feeling--John Williams will be scoring the next installment of the 'Star Wars' franchise.
Seattle Opera's 'Ring Cycle' Returns Once More, This Time for $39 Million

Seattle Opera's award-winning 'Ring Cycle'--inspired by the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest--was unveiled to wide acclaim in 2001, revived for sold-out audiences in 2005 and 2009...
EXCLUSIVE: Dan Deacon and Kronos Quartet's App Collab, 'Four Phases of Conflict,' @ Lincoln Center Out of Doors [iPhone PHOTOS]

(The app is currently unavailable for BlackBerry devices.) Four Phases of Conflict for string quartet, electronics and audience By Dan Deacon The piece is to be performed by all people in the room: audience, stage performers, crew, staff, security, press, etc.
Wagner @ Bayreuth: Frank Castorf's 'Rheingold' and 'Walküre' Better Than Expected

An oil-themed staging of Richard Wagner's famous 'Ring Cycle' for his bicentenary year in the opera house he built in Bayreuth showed signs on Saturday of defying predictions it would be a disaster that might even bring down the house...
READ: Aaron Dilloway's Original Liners for the Nath Family's 'SOUNDS OF THE INDIAN SNAKE CHARMER, VOL. TWO' (Hanson)

Recorded in March, 2005 by Aaron Dilloway in Kathmandu, Nepal... Originally released as a cassette back in 2005, this second volume of Aaron Dilloway's in-the-field recordings of the Nath snake charmers of Haryana, India was recorded in March of that year in Kathmandu.
Bryn Terfel Makes Mormon Deal with Deutsche Grammophon to Launch Snowdonia Records

Two decades after first joining Deutsche Grammophon, Bryn Terfel has signed an exclusive, long-term recording contract with the Berliners. As part of the deal, the award-winning Welsh baritone/bass has affirmed his commitment to...
UPDATE...AGAIN: BSO Says Christoph Eschenbach Now Out for Tanglewood, but He Might Just be Mad

When it rains in the Berkshires, well, it pours in the Berkshires... When it rains in the Berkshires, well, it just pours in the Berkshires. Andris Nelsons, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's brand new Latvian conductor, remains concussed in Bayreuth.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Renews Music Director Marin Alsop's Contract Through 2021

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has announced that music director Marin Alsop will remain with the orchestra by signing a six-year contract extension, from September 2015 to August 2021--her second employment renewal with the band...
FREE LISTEN: Anna Netrebko Sings Verdi's "Mercè, dilette amiche" on New Deutsche Grammophon Album

Netrebko doing Verdi for DG...worth every red cent... We don't know about you, but Classicalite has been floating on SoundCloud 9 after so many free repeats of Anna Netrebko singing Verdi's "Mercè, dilette amiche.
Boston Symphony Orchestra Subs Carlo Montanaro for Andris Nelsons, Eric Owens for Ferruccio Furlanetto in Verdi's 'Requiem' at Tanglewood

Making both his Tanglewood and BSO debut (and putting an end, finally, to all the who-will-take-the-cursed-podium speculation), this Italian protégé of one Zubin Mehta is set to lead this Saturday's performance of Verdi's 'Requiem'
UPDATE: Presenting All 40 Bessie Award 2012-13 Nominees...

The office of the New York Dance and Performance Awards (that is, The Bessies Steering Committee), has announced the 40 nominees for the 2012-13 season...
UPDATE: Boston Symphony Orchestra's Mark Volpe, Andris Nelsons Issue Statements Regarding Verdi at Tanglewood, Concussion at Bayreuth

Andris Nelsons, the BSO's brand new Latvian conductor, was concussed by a door in Bayreuth earlier this week. Right now, he is in a German hospital--forbidden to fly to the Berkshires.
Off Off Broadway : Daniel Bumgardner, 'You've Got My Song: the [unauthorized] Weezer musical'

A concert narrative in dramatic form (itself after Puccini's 'Butterfly'), so far, Classicalite has published the entire first act of Daniel Bumgardner's 'You've Got My Song: The [unofficial] Weezer Musical.' And we couldn't be more proud...
Intuitively Yours, Karlheinz Stockhausen

The Aughts were especially tough on Modernism. Starting in 2001, we lost Iannis Xenakis. In 2003, Luciano Berio passed on. Three years later, György Ligeti expired in Vienna, and two years shy of making contact, Mauricio Kagel had...
LONGREADS: John Frusciante, Ex-Red Hot Chili Pepper Guitarist, on How His New 'Outside' EP is "Modern Classical Music"

"The EP is 20 minutes long." -- John Frusciante Record Collection is releasing ex-Red Hot Chili Pepper guitarist John Frusciante's new solo EP, Outside, on August 27.
BREAKING: Bessie Awards for Darrell Jones and Joanna Kotze, 40 Other Nominations Announced

On a muggy Wednesday afternoon at the Gina Gibney Dance Center's Studio 5-2, two special Bessie Awards were presented to choreographers Darrell Jones and Joanna Kotze. 40 nominations for the upcoming Bessies Awards ceremony...
EXCLUSIVE: Opera on Tap Does Britten, Bizet for "It's Too Darn Hot" @ Freddy's Bar

With temperatures in Gotham closing in on triple digits this week, last Thursday, the New York chapter of Opera on Tap retreated to much cooler climes--apropos, the backroom of Freddy's Bar in Brooklyn. And while their 2013 residency...
YouTube Pianist Valentina Lisitsa Letting You Choose Program for New York Recital Debut at 92Y, Prizes Also Available

As if Classicalite needed another reason to <3 Valentina Lisitsa, YouTube's native pianist has gone and given us yet another one. Sorry, make that three (3). And before you ask, no, it's not a "Pearls Before Breakfast" triplicate.