Mariss Jansons – High Drama on the Podium
Mariss Jansons – High Drama on the Podium by Norman Lebrecht / May 31, 2000 FORTY minutes before a concert, Mariss Jansons mounts the stage…
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Scots grip Vienna
The highlight of a Vienna Festival marred by the stigma of political extremism, was Scottish Opera’s glorious Macbeth, says Norman Lebrecht BANQUO’s ghost stalked the…
Friends in need?
SSUE 1818 Wednesday 17 May 2000 Friends in need? BOC Covent Garden Festival – official site Norman Lebrecht on the callous misnomer “arts…
Good Managers are Hard to Find
Good Managers are Hard to Find by Norman Lebrecht / May 10, 2000 THE Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has lost its manager. What, again? I hear…
Heard But No Longer Seen
Heard But No Longer Seen by Norman Lebrecht / May 3, 2000 WHICHEVER way you look at it, and many have given up watching, BBC…
The Battle for Berlin’s Heart
The Battle for Berlin’s Heart by Norman Lebrecht / April 19, 2000 THE battlefront has finally reached Berlin. After two decades in which London, Amsterdam,…
The True Humanity of Alma Rosé
The true humanity of Alma Rosé by Norman Lebrecht / April 5, 2000 THE morning they took my neighbour Eleanor away for cremation, there arrived…
Pierre Boulez – Playing with Propaganda
Playing with Propaganda by Norman Lebrecht / March 22, 2000 IT would be easy to imagine, amid the hoo-ha and the hype, that the man…
The demon drink
The demon drink by Norman Lebrecht / March 8, 2000 MUCH to report from behind the baton. Paris is abuzz over its next two conductors,…
Not resisting but gesturing
Not resisting but gesturing by Norman Lebrecht / March 1, 2000 THE return of Gérard Mortier to the Salzburg Festival poses more problems than it…
