http://www.monteverdi.tv/ Want to be informed about what is happening in the classical music world? Each day, hand-picked by our editors, MonteVerdi Media Classical News offers a complete overview of what is written in all the main newspapers, blogs, magazines and other online sources. Get the latest news, reviews, features and announcements with our RSS reader, and never miss a thing! http://www.monteverdi.tv/news.php?newsnum=4952 Those lucky enough to have secured themselves a ticket for the Stephen Sondheim Prom – one of the first and fastest to sell out – did so knowing that the great American composer was planning to turn up to take a bow. Now,... read more http://www.monteverdi.tv/news.php?newsnum=4953 In the corridor outside door H, I was on the floor and a helpful usher was fetching the Royal Albert Hall medic. In the auditorium, the Prom from which I had extracted myself, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was in full... read more http://www.monteverdi.tv/news.php?newsnum=4949 Francesco Cavalli reached the apex of his career in Venice, near the middle of the 17th century, and he did it by exploiting both sides of what could be described as the city's split musical personality. At the time, Venice boasted one... read more http://www.monteverdi.tv/news.php?newsnum=4950 A reporter's case against the Cleveland Orchestra's parent organization and The Plain Dealer is winding down after two weeks. Reporter Donald Rosenberg's 2008 lawsuit claims the Musical Arts Association interfered with his work and... read more http://www.monteverdi.tv/news.php?newsnum=4951 I have never seen Symphony Hall erupt the way it did that night in 2007, with Venezuela’s Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra onstage. It was not the precision and polish of the group’s Bartok or Beethoven that set off the crowd,... read more http://www.monteverdi.tv/news.php?newsnum=4945 A group of cloistered nuns in southern France have signed a major record deal with Decca Records. The British label announced Sunday that the Benedictine nuns of the Abbaye de Notre Dame de l'Annonciation near Avignon were chosen after a... read more http://www.monteverdi.tv/news.php?newsnum=4946 Conductor Sir Colin Davis has announced he will no longer be participating in the BBC Proms this year because of ill health. The 82-year-old had been scheduled to conduct the European Union Youth Orchestra on 9 August. Matthias Bamert,... read more http://www.monteverdi.tv/news.php?newsnum=4947 This, actually, is what the Proms  are all about. Not the tradition – yes, OK, the tradition, if you must, continuity's such a favourite paunchy uncle – but the quiet way in which genuinely young people excite genuinely... read more http://www.monteverdi.tv/news.php?newsnum=4948 Not so long ago they were siblings at war. Now the great-granddaughters of Richard Wagner have put their feud behind them because they have a show to roll out, and the world's music critics are watching closely. The first Wagner festival... read more http://www.monteverdi.tv/news.php?newsnum=4941 I was always rather a fan of Jeremy Hunt when he was in Opposition. He seemed thoughtful and actually interested in the arts – not always a prerequisite for past Ministers of Culture. But now he's in Government. I heard him speak... read more