News topics of the month - August 2020
Every month, soclassiq analyses the web media for you and identifies those who have made the news. Here are the results for August 2020
These rankings can be very different from one country to another. Discover the ones the press is talking about elsewhere. Sometimes the areas of interest are very different.
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August 2020
Composers, Conductors, Performers & Lyrical singers (811)
Claudio Abbado
Carl Friedrich Abel
John Adams
Leslie Adams
Samuel Adler
Guido Adler
David Afkham
Roberto Alagna
Petrus Alamire
Tomaso Albinoni
Louise Alder
George Alexander Osborne
Abulfat Aliyev
Till Ally
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Marin Alsop
Leroy Anderson
Marian Anderson
Joho Andres
John Andrews
Nicholas Angelich
Paul Angerer
Giovanni Animuccia
Paolo Animuccia
Sarah Ann Glover
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello
Martha Argerich
Malcolm Arnold
David Ashkenazi
Algernon Ashton
Ivor Atkins
Thomas Attwood
Emanuel Ax
Kinan Azmeh
Sharon Azrieli
Johann Christian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Paul Badura-Skoda
Alena Baeva
James Baillieu
Janet Baker
Katherine Balch
Agnes Baltsa
Rinald Bamberg
Samuel Barber
John Barbirolli
Pierre Barbizet
Otis Bardwell Boise
Daniel Barenboim
Clarence Barlow
Inon Barnatan
John Barnett
Cecilia Bartoli
Jamie Barton
Rachel Barton Pine
Béla Bartók
Edgar Bastidas
Mason Bates
Rudolf Baumgartner
Mary Anne à Beckett
Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet
Ludwig van Beethoven
Joshua Bell
Vincenzo Bellini
Nicola Benedetti
John Bennet
John Morgan Bentley
Alban Berg
Arthur Berger
Erna Berger
Hector Berlioz
Leonard Bernstein
Hildegard of Bingen
Seth Bingham
Jonathan Biss
Georges Bizet
Harolyn Blackwell
Ernest Bloch
Stephanie Blythe
Jerry Bock
Anne Boleyn
Ivor Bolton
Liam Bonner
Gaetano Borghini
Jacques Bosch
Ian Bostridge
Leon Botstein
Nadia Boulanger
Pierre Boulez
Adrian Boult
Mark Bowden
Douglas Boyd
James C. Bradford
Johannes Brahms
Charlotte Bray
Katie Bray
Julian Bream Brewster
Shirley Brill
Benjamin Britten
Katherine Broderick
George Broderick
Adolph Brodsky
Zakhar Bron
John Browne
Lawrence Brownlee
Anton Bruckner
Bram Bruin
William Burden
Richard Oscar Burdick
William Burdine Blake, Sr.
Joe Burke
Margaret Burke Sheridan
Harry T. Burleigh
Karla Burns
Stuart Burrows
Dashon Burton
James Burton
Fritz Busch
Clara Butt
David Butt Philip
William Byrd
John Cage
Antonio Caldara
Simon Callaghan
Charles Callahan Perkins
Clarence Cameron White
Ferdinand Capelle
Antonio Capuzzi
Renaud Capuçon
Henry Carey
Edwin Carr
Zachary Carrettin
Harry Carroll
Enrico Caruso
Robert Carver
Charles Castronovo
Thomas Hardie Chalmers
Norman Charles Suckling
Charles-Alexis Chauvet
Ray Chen
John Chest
Timothy Chooi
Frédéric Chopin
Bernhard Christensen
William Christie
Franz Christoph Neubauer
Harry Christophers
Jani Christou
Aldo Ciccolini
Rebecca Clarke
Jeremiah Clarke
Natalie Clein
Joy Clements
Gordon Clinton
Anna Clyne
Grant Colburn
Florence Cole Talbert
Dan Coleman
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Sarah Connolly
Imogen Cooper
Aaron Copland
Roque Cordero
Richard Cowan
Jean Cox
Ruth Crawford Seeger
William Croft
Dwayne Croft
Lorenzo da Da Ponte
Ingolf Dahl
Emma Dahl
Michel Dalberto
Thomas Dausgaard
Giovanni David
Lise Davidsen
Iestyn Davies
Anthony Davis
Lynne Dawson
Claude Debussy
Léo Delibes
Jeremy Denk
Stéphane Denève
Joyce DiDonato
Anton Diabelli
Clarence Dickinson
François Dieupart
Dean Dixon
Plácido Domingo
Florian Donderer
Gaetano Donizetti
Peter Donohoe
Jonathan Dove
John Dowland
Finnegan Downie Dear
Grant Doyle
Julius Drake
Charles Draper
Frederick Drummond
Alice Ducasse
Gustavo Dudamel
Ismael Dueñas
Guillaume Dufay
Franjo Dugan
Paul Dukas
Tan Dun
Antonín Dvořák
Aaron Dworkin
Arthur Eaglefield Hull
Henry Eccles
John Eccles
Benjamin Edward Woolf
Julian Edwards
James Ehnes
Alfred Einstein
Mark Elder
Edward Elgar
John Eliot Gardiner
George Enescu
Manuel Enríquez Salazar
Karl Erb
Tara Erraught
Antonio Escobar
Mahan Esfahani
Simon Estes
Julio Estrada
Rebecca Evans
Lois Ewell
Lauren Fagan
Manuel de Falla
Richard Farber
Farinelli
Sandford C. Faulkner
Gabriel Fauré
Domenico Ferrabosco
Catrin Finch
Michael Finnissy
Gerald Finzi
John Fiore
Julia Fischer
Leon Fleisher
Renée Fleming
Carl Flesch
Arthur Foote
Lukas Foss
Bruce Fowler
Jennifer France
José Francisco Leal
Bettina Freeman
Joan Fresco
Ignaz Friedman
Kari Frisell
Dai Fujikura
Dorothy Fuller
Ferruccio Furlanetto
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Manuel del García
Edward Gardner
Pasquale Gargiulo
Françoise Garner
Ruben Gazarian
Klaus Gerber
Valery Gergiev
Alban Gerhardt
Elena Gerhardt
George Gershwin
Carlo Gesualdo
Patrick Gilmore
Ivry Gitlis
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Christopher Glynn
Christine Goerke
Berthold Goldschmidt
Jerry Goldsmith
Mikhail Goldstein
Michael Gordon
Glenn Gould
Charles Gounod
Percy Grainger
William Grant Still
Eleanor Greenwood
Edvard Grieg
Vittorio Grigolo
Asmik Grigorian
Hélène Grimaud
Helen Grime
Julius Otto Grimm
Margarita Gritskova
Günther Groissböck
Eric Gross
Benjamin Grosvenor
Louis Gruenberg
Giancarlo Guerrero
Francisco Guerrero
Alfred d' Hack
Hartmut Haenchen
Hilary Hahn
Matt Haimovitz
Bernard Haitink
Charles Hallé
Marc-André Hamelin
George Frideric Handel
Vernon Handley
Barbara Hannigan
John Harbison
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Roy Harris
Anja Harteros
Jonathan Harvey
Joji Hattori
Franz Hauser
Michael Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Roland Hayes
Catherine Hayes
Thomas Hayward
Ted Hearne
Johann Caspar Heck
Anthony Hedges
Jake Heggie
Jascha Heifetz
Karl Helm
Juan-Miguel Hernandez
Bernard Herrmann
Myrna Herzog
Mathieu Herzog
Heinrich von Herzogenberg
Sarah Hicks
Jennifer Higdon
David Hill
Paul Hindemith
Ann Hobson Pilot
Peter Holder
Robert Hollingworth
Jennifer Holloway
Sallie Holman
Gustav Holst
Arthur Honegger
Daniel Hope
Lisa Hopkins
Marilyn Horne
Mieczysław Horszowski
Stephen Hough
Alan Hovhaness
Edgar Hovhannisyan
Anush Hovhannisyan
Kiandra Howarth
Elgar Howarth
Herbert Howells
Klaus Huber
Robert A. Hudson
Ruby Hughes
Pelham Humfrey
Engelbert Humperdinck
Fenella Humphreys
Thomas Humphreys
José Hurtado
Ricky Ian Gordon
Alina Ibragimova
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nobuko Imai
Eliahu Inbal
Charles Ives
Guy-Baptiste Jaccottet
Stuart Jackson
René Jacobs
Werner Jaegerhuber
Franz Jakob Freystädtler
Janine Jansen
Elisabeth Jansson
Leoš Janáček
Aaron Jay Kernis
Adolf Jensen
Eugen Jochum
Stephen Johns
Graham Johnson
Guy Johnston
Andrew Johnston
John Joubert
Michail Jurowski
Vladimir Jurowski
Neeme Järvi
Isata Kanneh-Mason
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Kirill Karabits
Herbert von Karajan
Aleksandr Kastalsky
Julius Katchen
Richard Kaufman
Jonas Kaufmann
Leonidas Kavakos
Ulysses Kay
Simon Keenlyside
Daniel Kellogg
Edwin F. Kendall
Andrew Kennedy
Elizabeth Kenny
Torsten Kerl
Jerome Kern
Robert Kerns
István Kertész
Gershon Kingsley
Carlos Kleiber
Otto Klemperer
Štefan Kocán
Zoltán Kodály
Pawel Kolesnikow
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Mark Kosower
Serge Koussevitzky
Fritz Kreisler
Ernst Krenek
Franz Krommer
Aleksandra Kurzak
Frank La Forge
Jacques Lacombe
Louis Lacombe
Emmanuel Lafarge
Bernard Lagacé
Joseph Lamb
Sarah Lancaster
David Lang
Lang Lang
Alison Langer
Rued Langgaard
Philip Langridge
Louis Langrée
François Lays
Henry Lazarus
Mitch Leigh
Joseph von Leopold Eybler
Mimi Lerner
Hermann Levi
James Levine
Paul Lewis
David Lewiston Sharpe
Tania León
Henry Lichfield
György Ligeti
Magnus Lindberg
Kate Lindsey
Franz Liszt
George Lloyd
Julian Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Pietro Locatelli
Carl Loewe
Clara Louise Kellogg
Fabio Luisi
Yo-Yo Ma
James MacMillan
Cornell MacNeil
Alexander Mackenzie
Charles Mackerras
Steven Mackey
Abraham Mackintosh
Gustav Mahler
Albert Mallinson
Antonello Manacorda
Charles Mandel
Horace Mansion
Sebastian Manz
Omar Vladimir Marcano
John Mark Ainsley
Neville Marriner
Wynton Marsalis
John Marsh
Marianna von Martines
Jean Martinon
Bohuslav Martinů
Pietro Mascagni
Florentio Maschera
Jules Massenet
Nicola Matteis
Nicola Matteis Jr.
Karita Mattila
Siegfried Mauser
Donald Maxwell
Christian McBride
Ali McGregor
John McGuire
Nancy McIntosh
Anne McKnight
Marie McLaughlin
Stephen McNeff
Dennis McNeil
Colin McPhee
Waltraud Meier
Alfred Mellon
Felix Mendelssohn
Yehudi Menuhin
Karl Merz
Olivier Messiaen
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Orazio Michi
Darius Milhaud
Sherrill Milnes
Marilyn Mims
Julia Mintzer
Leona Mitchell
Emiri Miyamoto
Meredith Monk
Maria Montana
Pierre Monteux
Claudio Monteverdi
William Henry Montgomery
Daniel Moody
Susan Moore
Thomas Moore
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alfred Frederic Mullen
Lawrence R. Mumford
Charles Munch
Otis Murphy
John Murphy
Olli Mustonen
Riccardo Muti
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Susanna Mälkki
Daniel Müller-Schott
Kent Nagano
Robert Nathaniel Dett
Szymon Nehring
Stuart Neill
Andris Nelsons
Anna Netrebko
Paul Neubauer
Ginette Neveu
Nokuthula Ngwenyama
Eric Paul Nichols
Carl Nielsen
Arthur Nikisch
Yazin Nizar
Jessye Norman
Andrea Nozzari
Leo Nucci
Benjamin Nunn
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Thomas O'Brien Butler
Simon O'Neill
Russell Oberlin
Jacques Offenbach
Andrea Oliva
Akiko Ono
Kristīne Opolais
Sakari Oramo
Lisette Oropesa
Rafael Orozco
Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Antonio Orsini
Edwin Outwater
Eric Owens
Seiji Ozawa
Niccolò Paganini
Giovanni da Palestrina
Antonio Pappano
Albert Parlow
Hubert Parry
Anna Patalong
Mary Ann Paton
Luciano Pavarotti
Anthony Payne
Peter Pears
James Peck
Arthur A. Penn
Francesco Pennisi
Itzhak Perlman
Julia Perry
Roberta Peters
Kirill Petrenko
Susanna Phillips
Jamie Phillips
Astor Piazzolla
Giovanni Picchi
Francesco Piemontesi
Edward Piers
Walter Piston
Ferdinand Poise
Evelyn Pollock
John Pond Ordway
Lily Pons
Katya Popova
Nicola Porpora
Michel Portal
Tom Poster
Francis Poulenc
Lawrence Power
Margaret Price
Florence Price
William Primrose
Gabriel Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Jacqueline du Pré
Giacomo Puccini
Henry Purcell
Arvo Pärt
Junping Qian
Gino Quilico
Louis Quilico
Sergei Rachmaninoff
L. Radley Flynn
Brenda Rae
Ross Ramgobin
Allan Ramsay
Simon Rattle
Maurice Ravel
Sims Reeves
Steve Reich
Lucienne Renaudin Vary
Ottorino Respighi
Johan Reuter
Rolf Reuter
Timothy Ridout
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Ilyich Rivas
David Roach
Pierre Rode
Kirill Rodin
Betty Roe
Jean Roger-Ducasse
Natalya Romaniw
Landon Ronald
Gil Rose
Therese Rosenbaum
Scott Ross
Gioachino Rossini
Christopher Rouse
Albert Roussel
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Arthur Rubinstein
Edward Rushton
John Rutter
Elisabeth Röckel
Dorothea Röschmann
Kaija Saariaho
Chevalier de Saint-George
Camille Saint-Saëns
Antonio Salieri
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Pablo de Sarasate
Erik Satie
William Savage
Issachah Savage
Jordi Savall
John Savournin
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Lea Sawyers
Fazıl Say
Domenico Scarlatti
Heinrich Schenker
András Schiff
Franz Schmidt
Artur Schnabel
Alfred Schnittke
Arnold Schoenberg
Anton Schott
Peter Schreier
Franz Schubert
Clara Schumann
Robert Schumann
Joseph Schuster
Isaac Schwartz
Seymour Schwartzman
Renata Scotto
Alexander Scriabin
Uri Segal
Andrés Segovia Torres
Abel Selaocoe
Tullio Serafin
Rudolf Serkin
Raphael Severe
Gil Shaham
Orli Shaham
William Shakespeare
Anoushka Shankar
Herbert Sharpe
Arthur Shepherd
John Sheppard
Anatoly Shevchenko
Oxana Shevchenko
Alice Shields
Heather Shipp
John Shirley-Quirk
Howard Shore
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jean Sibelius
Beverly Sills
Alvin Singleton
Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Baiba Skride
Leonard Slatkin
Ethel Smyth
Kian Soltani
Georg Solti
Jules Diaz de Soria
Jeannette Sorrell
Albert Spalding
Mark Sparks
Toby Spence
Vladimir Spivakov
Michael Spyres
Charles Villiers Stanford
Dalia Stasevska
Theodore Stearns
Nina Stemme
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Mariya Stepanova
Isaac Stern
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Eric Stokes
Leopold Stokowski
Nancy Storace
Antonio Stradivari
Richard Strauss
Igor Stravinsky
Josef Suk
Arthur Sullivan
Joan Sutherland
Anna Sutter
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Franz Xaver Süssmayr
Germaine Tailleferre
Thomas Tallis
Melvyn Tan
John Tavener
John Taverner
Renata Tebaldi
Klaus Tennstedt
Bryn Terfel
Tanja Tetzlaff
Christian Tetzlaff
Mikis Theodorakis
Peter Theremin
Christian Thielemann
Russell Thomas
Camille Thomas
Shirley Thompson
Penelope Thorn
James Thornton
Robin Ticciati
Michael Tilson Thomas
Davóne Tines
Michael Tippett
John Tomlinson
Vincenzo Tommasini
Michael Torke
Veljo Tormis
Arturo Toscanini
Edward Travis
Daniil Trifonov
Ronan Tynan
Walter Uhlig
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Giuseppe Verdi
Pierre de Villiers
Antonio Vivaldi
István Várdai
Osmo Vänskä
Richard Wagner
Matthew Kofi Waldren
Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Jessica Walker
Louis Wallis
Bruno Walter
William Walton
Robert Ward
André Watts
Carl Maria von Weber
Joseph Webster
Joshua Weilerstein
Alisa Weilerstein
Kurt Weill
Mieczysław Weinberg
Judith Weir
Franz Welser-Möst
Chou Wen-chung
Hans Werner Henze
Eva-Maria Westbroek
George Whitefield Chadwick
Paul Wiancko
Friedrich Wieck
Henryk Wieniawski
Blind Tom Wiggins
David Wilde
Philip van Wilder
Alec Wilder
Dora Wiley
Thomas Wilkins
Joseph Willard Roosevelt
Nardus Williams
John Williams
John Wilson
Elisabeth Withers
Hugo Wolf
Julia Wolfe
Henry Wood
Shai Wosner
Gordon Wry
Xuefei Yang
Adrian K. Yee
Pretty Yende
Chen Yi
Sonya Yoncheva
Esther Yoo
Riccardo Zandonai
Hao Zhou
Tabea Zimmermann
Alondra de la Parra
casa pomerana
Władysław Żeleński
Orchestras & Ensembles (97)
American Composers Orchestra
Aurora Orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Glasgow)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra (London)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic
Berlin Staatskapelle
Birmingham Opera Company
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Brussels Philharmonic
Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Cairo Symphony Orchestra
Cambridge Singers
Canadian Opera Company (Toronto)
Cappella Giulia (Rome)
Chicago Philharmonic
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
City of London Sinfonia
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Doric String Quartet
Dover Quartet
Dunedin Consort
English Chamber Orchestra
English National Opera (London)
English Touring Opera
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Ficta
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Garsington Opera
Gesualdo Six
Grange Park Opera (West Horsley)
Hampstead Garden Opera
Houston Grand Opera
Houston Symphony
I Fagiolini
Imani Winds
Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Kronos Quartet
London Concertante
London Mozart Players
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra (Barbican Centre)
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Maggini Quartet
Maryland Symphony Orchestra
Metropolitan Opera (New York City)
Minnesota Orchestra (Minneapolis)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Mozart Piano Quartet
Musica Ficta
Nashville Symphony
National Opera Studio
National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
New England Philharmonic
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
New World Symphony (Miami Beach)
New York City Opera (Manhattan)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Oakland Symphony
Opera Atelier (Toronto)
Opera Holland Park (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
Opera North
Orchestra Mozart
Orchestra of Opera North
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Orchestre Métropolitain
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (New York City)
Pacific Symphony (Santa Ana)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Red Byrd
Roomful of Teeth
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
San Diego Opera
San Francisco Symphony
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Scottish Ensemble
Scottish Opera
Seattle Symphony
Simón Bolívar String Quartet
Sinfonia of London
Solem Quartet
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Tulsa Opera
Ulysses
Utah Symphony – Utah Opera
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wellesley Symphony Orchestra
Zurich Opera
Opera houses, Concert halls & Festivals (38)
Aldeburgh Festival Bard Music Festival (Annandale-on-Hudson) Bayreuth Festival Bayreuth Festival Theatre Bolshoi Theatre (Tverskoy District) Bowdoin International Music Festival (Brunswick) Buxton Festival Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Santa Cruz) Cadogan Hall (London) Carnegie Hall (Manhattan) Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) Edinburgh International Festival (City of Edinburgh) Festival de Lanaudière Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber (Dresden) Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles) La Scala (Milan) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Manhattan) Mariinsky Theatre (Saint Petersburg) Mostly Mozart Festival (New York City) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Zugló) National Centre for the Performing Arts (Xichang'anjie Subdistrict) National Opera and Ballet (Sofia Capital Municipality) Nevill Holt Opera (Leicestershire) Notre-Dame de Paris Olympic Music Festival (Port Townsend) Ravinia Festival (Illinois) Rockport Music Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro) Royal Albert Hall (City of Westminster) Royal Opera House (City of Westminster) Salle Pleyel (8th arrondissement of Paris) Salzburg Festival Sheffield Cathedral Snape Maltings The Proms (London) Vienna State Opera (Innere Stadt) West Green House (Hartley Wintney) Wigmore Hall (City of Westminster)