This just in: Thursday, August 7th will be “Christine Brewer Day” in St. Louis.
Things are still falling into place, but this much is set: Mayor Francis Slay will read the proclamation over the air on KFUO (99.1 FM), with…
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Soprano Christine Brewer is based in the St. Louis area, but she does a lot of singing in Great Britain. She was among the nominees for the “BBC Listeners’ Award 2008″ this year — and she won.…
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a page-one feature on an endangered species: the prompter. Prompters help to save singers’ musical lives, by being on the spot with musical cues and words where needed. But opera houses are using fewer of…
Hometown soprano Christine Brewer is among the artists nominated for the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, in conjunction with BBC Radio 3. The short list, selected by Radio 3 editors, Proms concert producers and Radio 3 producers, honors performers who…
Lorin Maazel was never seen as much more than a caretaker music director for the New York Philharmonic, but it’s turned into a seven-year run. The Phil announced its 2008-09 season on Thursday. Maazel’s last hurrah will come on June…
Tenor Jerry Hadley, who was taken off life support this week, made some of his earliest marks as a singer at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
From a trio of small roles in 1979, Hadley moved to Fenton in Verdi’s…
Colin Graham was given exactly the kind of sendoff he wanted Tuesday night: good music, people who loved him, and real food to follow.
Graham, the longtime artistic director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, died on April 6 -…
Christine Brewer’s on it; Deborah Voigt isn’t. Neither is Renee Fleming. But the editors and critics who put together BBC Magazine’s controversial list of the 20 best sopranos of all time seem to be all British — and that means…
Music director David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra played a double header on Friday. First, at 10:30, there was the morning coffee concert, the first iteration of three subscription performances they’ll give this weekend. Then, at 6:30, came…
Donald Palumbo, whose claims to fame include employing soprano Christine Brewer in her days as a chorister at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, will start a new job in a few months: chorus master at the Metropolitan Opera.
That’s the…
