Bernstein is third most performed composer of 2018

New York City Ballet in Justin Peck’s Easy, set on Bernstein's music

Mass performed at the Ravinia Festival

Candide at the Komische Oper Berlin

Leonard Bernstein

Pacific Music Festival's tribute to Leonard Bernstein at Sapporo Snow Festival, Japan

The Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra's students honour Bernstein, founder of the festival

By Laura Volpi, 07 January 2019

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“It’s a very gratifying feeling to get to exercise your creative heart”

Edward Seckerson, 6th November

Ahead of the release of Maestro, starring and directed by Bradley Cooper, Leonard Bernstein’s oldest daughter discusses her father’s impact on her life and the music world at large.

Before the war came: why The Green Table is urgent today

Bachtrack, 20th May

Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Jonathan Payn talks about The Green Table by Kurt Jooss, first performed in Paris in 1932 – and how choreography can respond to political collapse and the threat of war.

Diversity and recovery: Early music in Croatia

Lawrence Dunn, 13th May

A group of younger Croatian musicians, including new ensemble Gli Schiavoni, are determined to recover the historical music of Croatia, despite a devastating series of earthquakes and armed conflicts.

Kith and kin: Brett Dean and family prepare Of One Blood

Lawrence Dunn, 1st May

Brett Dean, Heather Betts and Lotte Betts-Dean sit down to discuss their work on Of One Blood, a new opera dramatising the lives of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots – affairs of the family all round.

Attuned to the times: Anastasia Kobekina in Prague

Charlotte Gardner, 30th April

Ahead of a return to Prague to perform with the Czech Philharmonic, Anastasia Kobekina talks about Bryce Dessner’s new cello concerto, Trembling Earth, her love for Dvořák, and exploring new instruments.

Rambert School, Juilliard School, McGregor: triple threat!

Deborah Weiss, 29th April

Amanda Britton, Artistic Director of Rambert School, talks about an exchange and collaboration between the Rambert School and Juilliard to create a new work by Wayne McGregor, a unique project.

Laura Volpi

Laura Volpi used to be Bachtrack's Commissioning Editor. Having studied singing as part of the choir of Teatro Alla Scala, Milano, in her native Italy, she has a soft spot for Mozart operas and contemporary dance, but also loves all classical music. A published author and magazine writer, in summer you can find her queuing for the Proms or in Hyde Park listening to Vivaldi while feeding carrots to squirrels.

On the side of the angels: Bernstein is third most performed composer of 2018