"Vary the song, O London, change!" Message in a bottle from Stravinsky, Auden and Chester Kallman, whose opera The Rake’s Progress was premiered at Venice’s ⁦Teatro La Fenice⁩ #OTD in 1951.

RIP Ben Thapa, the tenor who has died aged 42.

Sad news of the death of the American soprano Christine Weidinger, aged 78.

Anyone know any of the five operas of Guido Guerrini, a Busoni pupil born #OTD in 1890?

Wishing the conductor John Mauceri John Mauceri a very happy birthday!

The 2024 ⁦Wigmore Hall⁩ Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition has been won by the Austrian mezzo Anja Mittermüller; second prize went to the Uruguayan tenor Santiago Sánchez and third to the New Zealand baritone Jonathan Eyers.

A voice in the wilderness: Arnold Schoenberg, the prophetic composer of Moses und Aron, was born 150 years ago today.

The great Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov was born 95 years ago today.

Remembering Tamara Milashkina, one of the Bolshoy Theatre’s former leading sopranos, who died earlier this year but would have turned 90 today.

Renée Fleming is coming to New Jersey October 6th! Don't miss Renée’s performance of Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene with visuals from the National Geographic Society. Get tickets today: njsymphony.org. njsymphony.org/?utm_source=Op… (Sponsored)

In the Premio Abbiati del disco 2024, awarded by the Associazione Critici musicali italiani, Anna Bonitatibus’s album Monologues (on Prospero Classical) has won in the Solo Repertoire category; the Opera category winners are Dido and Aeneas (Pentatone) and Katya Kabanová (LSO).

Strike still on as talks with ⁦Welsh National Opera⁩ make little progress. equity.org.uk/news/2024/stri…

Ringing the changes: announcement from La Scala ⁦Teatro alla Scala⁩ on conductors of its new Ring cycle, as Christian Thielemann is forced to withdraw and is replaced by Simone Young and Alexander Soddy.

Dante Alighieri died in Ravenna #OTD in 1321. The most popular Dante-based opera is Gianni Schicchi, but do you have other favourites?

Ghostly stirrings: Britten’s The Turn of the Screw was premiered in Venice ⁦Teatro La Fenice⁩ 70 years ago today.

Wishing the Argentinian tenor Raúl Giménez ⁦Raul Gimenez Tenor⁩ a very happy birthday!

The celebrated Hungarian violinist and composer Jenő Hubay - who wrote several operas including The Venus of Milo, The Violin-Maker of Cremona and Anna Karenina - was born in Pest #OTD in 1858.

The great Swiss composer Frank Martin - whose output includes more operas and music-theatre works than are usually remembered! - was born in Geneva #OTD in 1890.

Today would have been Jessye Norman’s 79th birthday.

Die Frist ist um (almost, but not quite yet): ⁦Opera Holland Park⁩ has announced its summer 2025 season, including its first Wagner production. operahollandpark.com/news/announcin…