Gustávo Dudamel
Venezuelan conductor and violinist
Photo: Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
- Jul 20
FIFA's first World Cup final halftime show runs 27 minutes, draws mixed reactions for Madonna, Bieber and BTS
The FIFA World Cup final between Spain and Argentina featured the tournament's first halftime show, a Super Bowl-style production at MetLife Stadium that ran more than 27 minutes and generated over $100 million for education programmes.
- Jul 10
‘Music was my first desire’: Anthony Hopkins, 88, to release classical album ‘Life Is a Dream’ with Gustavo Dudamel
Two-time Oscar winner Sir Anthony Hopkins has signed with Decca Classics to issue ‘Life Is a Dream’, a collection of orchestral pieces he composed over six decades, on 21 August. The first single, ‘Bracken Road’, inspired by his Welsh childhood, dropped today.