Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Terrorist state I can never go back to Russia

More than a decade ago, Vladimir Jurowski, one of Russia’s best-known musical sons, began to realize that things were going in a bad direction in his native country. “It was a feeling, a premonition that things would get worse, especially after Russia’s annexation of Crimea,” says the 52-year-old conductor. “The irony is that they reached… Read More »

Sir Andrew Davis, the jovial conductor who added humor to the Last Night of the Proms – obituary

Conductor Sir Andrew Davis, who has died aged 80, had the extraordinary honor of simultaneously being chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and music director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the last decade of the 20th century. The cheerful and giggly Davis brought a great sense of humor and an innate musicality to both… Read More »