Reviews:

Ligeti-Crumb-Gelin, chamber concert (l’Orchestre de L’Opéra national de Paris, March 2024)
The Exterminating Angel (Opéra national de Paris, February 2024)

Tributes:

Bernard Haitink
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Michail Jurowski
Christa Ludwig
Graham Vick

Conductors:

Harry Bicket
Johannes Debus
Jordan de Souza
Justin Doyle
Dmitri Jurowski
Michail Jurowski
Vladimir Jurowski (2018) (2021)
Louis Langrée
Cornelius Meister
Vasily Petrenko (May 2019) (November 2019)
Carlo Rizzi
Alexander Shelley
Ralf Sochaczewsky

Ensembles:

The Choir Of Merton College, Oxford – Benjamin Nicholas, Director of Music; 2022
The Music Of Fanny Hensel – Daniel Grossman, Jewish Chamber Orchestra, & soprano Chen Reiss; 2022
Philharmonix – Noah Bendix-Balgley, First Concertmaster, Berlin Philharmonic, & Stephan Koncz, Cello, Berlin Philharmonic; 2019
VOPERA: Rachael Hewer, Director, and Tamzin Aitken, Producer; 2020

Singers:

Frédéric Antoun
Paul Appleby
Ilker Arcayürek
Piotr Beczala
Joseph Calleja
Allan Clayton
John Daszak & Brindley Sherratt (joint interview; 2020)
Stéphane Degout
Etienne Dupuis
Gerald Finley
Catherine Foster
Hibla Gerzmava
Wallis Giunta
Christine Goerke
Adriana González
Paul Groves
Thomas Hampson
Samantha Hankey & Katharina Konradi (joint interview, 2021)
Hui He
Christian Immler
Ermonela Jaho
Tomasz Konieczny
Dominik Köninger
Lisette Oropesa (2019) (2021)
Marlis Petersen
Lyubov Petrova
Saimir Pirgu
Luca Pisaroni
Marcelo Puente
Christoph Prégardien
Chen Reiss (2019) (2020)
Matthew Rose
Golda Schultz
Brindley Sherratt
Nicky Spence
Krisztina Szabó

Soloists:

Gautier Capuçon (2018) (2019)
Lucas Debargue
Helmut Deutsch
James Ehnes
Daniel Hope
Jan Lisiecki
Johannes Moser
Alexandra Silocea
Yuja Wang

Leaders:

David Devan, General Director & President, Opera Philadelphia
Elena Dubinets, Artistic Director, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Guido Gärtner, Managing Director Bayerisches Staatsorchester Konzert GmbH; Artistic Director Designate, Bremen Philharmonic
Andreas Homoki, Intendant, Opernhaus Zürich
Barrie Kosky, Director; Former Intendant, Komische Oper Berlin
Michael Mori, Artistic Director, Tapestry Opera
Alexander Neef, General Director, Opéra national de Paris (2023) – see also: 2017; 2020

Creative & Writing:

Lera Auerbach (Composer / Conductor / Writer / Artist)
Jack Bertinshaw (First Soloist, National Ballet of Canada)
Axel Brüggemann (Classical Journalist / Writer / Producer)
Boris Dralyuk (Poet / Translator)
Jessica Duchen (Critic / Author / Librettist)
Guido Gärtner (Managing Director, Bayerisches Staatsoper Recordings)
Waldemar Januszczak (Art Critic / Documentary Filmmaker)
Matthew Jocelyn (Director / Writer / Librettist)
Julie McIsaac (Theatre Artist / Dramaturge)
Douglas McNabney (Ex-Artistic Director, Toronto Summer Music Festival)
Edward Seckerson (Writer / Broadcaster)
Jacopo Spirei (Opera Director)
Alaina Viau (Artistic Director, Loose Tea Music Theatre)

Academic:

Mark Berry, Reader, Royal Holloway, University of London; Nicholas Vazsonyi, Dean, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at Clemson University
Marina Frolova-Walker, Professor of Music History & Director of Studies in Music, Clare College, Cambridge
Una Hunt, Professor, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama; Soloist
Jari Kallio,  Music writer; Teacher
Anna Shternshis, Professor, Yiddish Studies. University of Toronto; Executive Producer, Yiddish Glory
Martha Sprigge, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Guest Writers:

Tosca (Canadian Opera Company)  – review by Tori Wanzama (2023)

Carmen (Canadian Opera Company) – review by Tori Wanzama (2022)

David Trippett, Professor of Music, Cambridge University, on Liszt’s Sardanapalo – interview by Dejan Vukosavljevic (2022)

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