News topics of the month - July 2021
Every month, soclassiq analyses the web media for you and identifies those who have made the news. Here are the results for July 2021
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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July 2021
Composers, Conductors, Performers & Lyrical singers (829)
Claudio Abbado
Paul d' Acosta
Mark Adamo
John Adams
Guido Adler
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Anne Akiko Meyers
Roberto Alagna
Eleanor Alberga
Simone Alberghini
John Alden Carpenter
Vittoria Aleotti
George Alexander Osborne
Gregorio Allegri
Marin Alsop
William Alwyn
Anna de Amicis
Alicia Amo
David Amram
Timo Andres
John Andrews
Jurriaan Andriessen
Louis Andriessen
Felice Anerio
Frédéric Antoun
Martha Argerich
Fabio Armiliato
Marco Armiliato
Malcolm Arnold
Giovanni Giacomo Arrigoni
Algernon Ashton
David Atkinson
Gottfried August Homilius
Georges Auric
Emanuel Ax
Radek Baborák
Johann Sebastian Bach
Anna Baier
Raffaello de Banfield
Yuankai Bao
Samuel Barber
John Barbirolli
Shalom Bard
Daniel Barenboim
Stephen Barlow
Clarence Barlow
Josephine Barstow
Béla Bartók
Mason Bates
Lisa Batiashvili
Arnold Bax
Amy Beach
Steuart Bedford
Ludwig van Beethoven
Joshua Bell
Vincenzo Bellini
Gisele Ben-Dor
Victor Bendix
Noah Bendix-Balgley
Adriana Ferrarese del Bene
Nicola Benedetti
John Morgan Bentley
Alban Berg
Luciano Berio
Hector Berlioz
Lazar Berman
Leonard Bernstein
Walter Berry
Andrew Bidlack
Kezia Bienek
Ronald Binge
Hildegard of Bingen
Georges Bizet
Alexander Blachly
Ernest Bloch
Carl Blum
Thomas Blunt
Luigi Boccherini
Andrea Bocelli
Andrew David Boden
Samuel Boden
Ivor Bolton
Łukasz Borowicz
Leon Botstein
Lili Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
Pierre Boulez
Giovanni Battista Bovicelli
Mark Bowden
York Bowen
Johannes Brahms
Henri Brassard
Russell Braun
Ronald Brautigam Brewster
Frank Bridge
George Bridgetower
Benjamin Britten
Graeme Broadbent
Yefim Bronfman
Enrico Bronzi
Matthew Brook
John Browne
Lawrence Brownlee
Max Bruch
Anton Bruckner
Peter Bruns
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Giles Bryant
Gavin Bryars
Dudley Buck
Kenji Bunch
Joe Burke
Margaret Burke Sheridan
Harry T. Burleigh
Karla Burns
Iain Burnside
Stuart Burrows
Alan Bush
Geoffrey Bush
Clara Butt
George Butterworth
William Byrd
Karl Böhmer
Simon Callaghan
Maria Callas
Joseph Calleja
Luis Calvo
Thelma Camacho
Javier Camarena
Marchetto Cara
Jose Carbo
Henry Carey
Paul Carey Jones
Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
Edwin Carr
Ferdinando Carulli
Enrico Caruso
Alphonse Cary
Alfonso Casado Trigo
André Casanova
Max Emanuel Cenčić
Ignacio Cervantes
Howard Chamberlain
Cécile Chaminade
Elim Chan
Ernest Chausson
John William Cherry
Susan Chilcott
Seong-Jin Cho
Frédéric Chopin
Harry Christophers
Min Chung
Nicholas Clapton
Rebecca Clarke
Jeremiah Clarke
Joy Clements
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Xavier Coll
Michael Collins
James Conlon
Ben Connor
Alexandra Conunova
Deryck Cooke
Sasha Cooke
Ernesto A. L. Coop
Aaron Copland
John Corigliano
Stephen Costello
François Couperin
Aaron Cowling
William Croft
George Crumb
William Hayman Cummings
Laurence Cummings
Ella Uhrig Cummins
Theodoros Currentzis
Sebastian Currier
Diane Curry
Guy Cutting
Eufrosinia Cuza
Lorenzo da Da Ponte
Tove Dahlberg
Johan Dalene
Diana Damrau
Jean-Claude Darcey
Michael Daugherty
Lise Davidsen
Colin Davis
Andrew Davis
Alfredo Daza
Esteban Daza
Brett Dean
Claude Debussy
Jeremy Denk
Anna Dennis
Eleanor Dennis
Gérald Desmarais
Natalie Dessay
Steven Devine
Michael Devlin
Joyce DiDonato
Clarence Dickinson
Shani Diluka
Ernő von Dohnányi
Plácido Domingo
Gaetano Donizetti
Jonathan Dove
Grant Doyle
Julius Drake
Gustavo Dudamel
Franjo Dugan
André Dumortier
William Duncombe
Susan Dunn
Antonín Dvořák
Aaron Dworkin
Jean-Frédéric Edelmann
Sian Edwards
Julian Edwards
Charles Egan
Richard Egarr
Ludovico Einaudi
Gottfried von Einem
Hanns Eisler
Mark Elder
Edward Elgar
Henry Ely
Werner Enders
George Enescu
Julius Epstein
Christoph Eschenbach
Julio Estrada
Harriet Eyley
Yusif Eyvazov
Ēriks Ešenvalds
Franco Fagioli
Manuel de Falla
Marcus Farnsworth
Louise Farrenc
Gabriel Fauré
Morton Feldman
Gerald Finley
Gerald Finzi
Iván Fischer
Julia Fischer
Wilhelm Fitzenhagen
Michael of Fitzhardinge Berkeley
Isaac Van Vleck Flagler
Leon Fleisher
Pacho Flores
Josephine Fodor
Xavier Foley
Mina Foley
Emilie da Fonseca
Jennifer France
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Gottlob Frick
Grigory Frid
Sam Furness
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Kaspar Förster
Sol Gabetta
James Gaffigan
Daniele Gatti
Theodor Gaude
Karina Gauvin
Nicolai Gedda
Francis George Scott
Valery Gergiev
George Gershwin
Kirill Gerstein
Carlo Gesualdo
Giuseppe Giacomini
Alexander Gibson
James Gilchrist
Lawrence Gilman
Mauro Giuliani
Philip Glass
Christopher Glynn
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro
Randall Goosby
Michael Gordon
Mark Gotham
Glenn Gould
Charles Gounod
Susan Graham
Enrique Granados
William Grant Still
Maurice Greene
Edvard Grieg
David Griffiths
Benjamin Grosvenor
Charles Groves
Michel Gsell
Charles Guillet
Ivor Gurney
Mikołaj Górecki
François Habeneck
John Hackett
Hilary Hahn
Richard Hale
Antoinette Halloran
Charles Hallé
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Joan Hammond
Thomas Hampson
George Frideric Handel
Vernon Handley
Max Hansen
Howard Hanson
Pierre Hantaï
Milan Harašta
Daniel Harding
Heather Harper
Hamilton Harty
Jonathan Harvey
Martin Haselböck
Joseph Haydn
Roland Hayes
Catherine Hayes
Sam Haywood
Johann Caspar Heck
Anny Helm
Skitch Henderson
Anna Herbst
Antony Hermus
Thomas Herndon
Saioa Hernández
Angela Hewitt
Sarah Hicks
Edward Higginbottom
James Higgs
Domingo Hindoyan
Louis Hirsch
Alun Hoddinott
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Robin Holloway
Eugene Holmes
James Holmes
Cornelia Horak
Bethany Horak-Hallett
Marilyn Horne
Joseph Horovitz
Vladimir Horowitz
Herbert Howells
Robert A. Hudson
Stephen Humbert
Pelham Humfrey
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Engelbert Humperdinck
Jeremy Huw Williams
Federico Ibarra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Heinrich Isaac
Steven Isserlis
Charles Ives
Ildikó Iván
René Jacobs
Zachary James
Marek Janowski
Janine Jansen
Leoš Janáček
Scott Allen Jarrett
Darren Jeffery
Karl Jenkins
Adolf Jensen
Nathalie Joachim
Kevin John Edusei
Stephen Johns
Andrew Johnston
Jennifer Johnston
Scott Joplin
Philippe Jordan
John Joubert
Joseph Joubert
Vladimir Jurowski
Paavo Järvi
Neeme Järvi
Jeffrey Kahane
Joseph Kaiser
Carlos Kalmar
Heinrich Kaminski
Clara-Jumi Kang
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Herbert von Karajan
Johann Kaspar Mertz
Jonas Kaufmann
Thomas Kelly
Virginia Kerr
John van Kesteren
Dmitry Khvorostovsky
Kathleen Kim
Evgeny Kissin
Carlos Kleiber
Otto Klemperer
Jennifer Koh
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Jean Kraft
Fritz Kreisler
Conradin Kreutzer
Heinrich Kreuzer
Pekka Kuusisto
Ilkka Kuusisto
Hellen Kwon
Louis Lacombe
Jan Ladislav Dussek
James Laing
Adam Laloum
Jeanne Lamon
David Lang
Lang Lang
Quirijn De Lang
Tessa Lark
Alicia de Larrocha
Susan Larson
Lars-Erik Larsson
François Lays
Henry Lazarus
Benjamin Lees
Alain Lefèvre
Jean-Xavier Lefèvre
Walter Legge
Lotte Lehmann
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
Simon Lepper
Mimi Lerner
Hermann Levi
Martynas Levickis
David Lewin
Michael Lewin
Julia Lezhneva
György Ligeti
Richard Lin
Magnus Lindberg
Jaap ter Linden
Hannu Lintu
Marcello Lippi
Carolina Lippo
Franz Liszt
Vasiliy Konstantinovitsj Litvinenko
Elizabeth Llewellyn
Grant Llewellyn
Carl Loewe
Giorgio Lorenzi
Heather Lowe
Thomas Lowe
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Angharad Lyddon
Oksana Lyniv
Hubert Léonard
Jeanette MacDonald
James MacMillan
Cornell MacNeil
Stuart MacRae
Elizabeth Maconchy
Gustav Mahler
Mischa Maisky
Otto Manasse
Michael Mann
Jeff Manookian
Andrew Manze
Marin Marais
Louis Marchand
Heinrich Marschner
Malcolm Martineau
Pietro Mascagni
Jules Massenet
Heiko Mathias Förster
André Mathieu
Nicola Matteis
Colin Matthews
Karita Mattila
Donald Maxwell
Albrecht Mayer
Anthony McGill
Nancy McIntosh
Anne McKnight
Audra Mcdonald
Zubin Mehta
Rhys Meirion
Alfred Mellon
Fanny Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Gilberto Mendes
Yehudi Menuhin
Ivan Menzies
Raphaël Merlin
Olivier Messiaen
Joseph Middleton
Darius Milhaud
Sherrill Milnes
Marilyn Mims
Julia Mintzer
Michael Mofidian
Stanisław Moniuszko
Meredith Monk
Claudio Monteverdi
William Henry Montgomery
Susan Moore
Thomas Moore
Robert Moran
Thomas Morley
Ennio Morricone
Hannah Morrison
Juanjo Mosalini
Piotr Moss
Stephen Mould
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Nico Muhly
Viktoria Mullova
Gráinne Mulvey
Riccardo Muti
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Stanley Myers
Johanna Müller-Hermann
Cristian Măcelaru
Kent Nagano
Carolina Nairne
Jon Nakamatsu
Ernesto Nazareth
Andris Nelsons
Alex Ness
Anna Netrebko
Carl Nielsen
Danielle de Niese
Gianandrea Noseda
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Kelley O'Connor
Dustin O'Halloran
Simon O'Neill
Jacques Offenbach
Garrick Ohlsson
David Oistrakh
George Onslow
Rafael Orozco
Andrés Orozco-Estrada
John Osborn
Alex Otterburn
Simon Over
Eric Owens
Mark Padmore
Niccolò Paganini
Emmanuel Pahud
Giovanni da Palestrina
Renato Palumbo
Andrzej Panufnik
Roxanna Panufnik
Antonio Pappano
David Parry
Hubert Parry
Willis Patterson
Frank Patterson
Luciano Pavarotti
Anthony Payne
Graham Peel
Krzysztof Penderecki
Francesco Pennisi
Thomas Pereira
Itzhak Perlman
Louis Persinger
Miah Persson
Roberta Peters
Kirill Petrenko
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Joachim Pettoletti
Astor Piazzolla
Niccolò Piccinni
Jane Pickering
Peter Pieters
Brigitte Pinter
Ignaz Pleyel
Rachel Podger
Matthew Polenzani
Michael Pollock
Evelyn Pollock
Lucia Popp
David Popper
Nicola Porpora
Tom Poster
Francis Poulenc
André Previn
Florence Price
William Primrose
Sergei Prokofiev
Karl Proske
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Giacomo Puccini
Henry Purcell
Arvo Pärt
Junping Qian
Joel Quarrington
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Anita Rachvelishvili
Nemanja Radulović
Sondra Radvanovsky
Nic Raine
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Gweneth Ann Rand
Thomas Randle
Iiro Rantala
Francesco Rasi
Rasmus Rasmussen
Simon Rattle
Maurice Ravel
Alan Rawsthorne
Jean-Féry Rebel
John Redford
Sims Reeves
Max Reger
Steve Reich
Heinrich Reinhardt
Dilermando Reis
Vadim Repin
Ottorino Respighi
Roger Reynolds
Max Rhode
Ashley Riches
Sviatoslav Richter
André Rieu
Henri-Joseph Rigel
Wolfgang Rihm
Niels Jørgen Riis
Terry Riley
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Graciela Rivera
Henry Roberts
Stephen Roberts
John Robertson
David Robertson
Edgardo Rocha
Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodney Bennett
Eduard Rohde
Cipriano de Rore
Ned Rorem
Matthew Rose
Gioachino Rossini
Nino Rota
Daniel Roth
Joey Roukens
Albert Roussel
Christophe Rousset
Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Daniel Rowland
John Rutter
Frederic Rzewski
Kaija Saariaho
Chevalier de Saint-George
Camille Saint-Saëns
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Spiridon Samaras
Carolyn Sampson
Pablo de Sarasate
Erik Satie
Rebecca Saunders
John Savournin
András Schiff
Sebastian Bensen Schlesinger
Franz Schmidt
Florent Schmitt
Arnold Schoenberg
Erwin Schrott
Franz Schubert
Clara Schumann
Robert Schumann
Robert Schwalm
Kurt Schwertsik
Heinrich Schütz
Salvatore Sciarrino
Alexander Scriabin
Dominic Sedgwick
Abel Selaocoe
Franz-Josef Selig
Peter Selwyn
Christian Senn
Rudolf Serkin
Raphael Severe
Peter Seymour
William Shakespeare
En Shao
Herbert Sharpe
Arthur Shepherd
Heather Shipp
George Shirley
Howard Shore
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jean Sibelius
Gerhard Siegel
Nadine Sierra
Ezra Sims
Alvin Singleton
Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Leonard Slatkin
Thomas Sleeper
Bedřich Smetana
Ethel Smyth
Grigory Sokolov
Nicolai Soloviev
Stephen Sondheim
Fernando Sor
John Philip Sousa
Mark Sparks
Nicky Spence
Toby Spence
Julia Sporsen
Michael Spyres
Ethel Stark
Friedrich Starke
David Starobin
Horst Stein
Nina Stemme
Joseph Stephenson
Michael Stern
Isaac Stern
Risë Stevens
John Stevenson
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Leopold Stokowski
John Storgårds
Antonio Stradivari
Teresa Stratas
Stuart Stratford
Richard Strauss
Igor Stravinsky
Richard Suart
Arthur Sullivan
Franz Supper
Joan Sutherland
Jack Swanson
William Sweeney
Gottfried van Swieten
Valentyn Sylvestrov
Joseph Szigeti
Paulo Szot
Karol Szymanowski
Jens Søndergaard
Thomas Søndergård
Dobrinka Tabakova
Robert Talbot
Georg Tales
Thomas Tallis
Melvyn Tan
Jesper Taube
Veriko Tchumburidze
Georg Philipp Telemann
Christian Thielemann
Simon Thorpe
Callum Thorpe
Robin Ticciati
Michael Tippett
Thomas Tomkins
Michael Torke
Joan Tower
Gilles Tremblay
Constantin Trinks
Robin Tritschler
Tatiana Troyanos
Alice Tully
Elena Urioste
Galina Ustvolskaya
Juraj Valčuha
Julien Van Mellaerts
George Vass
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Stanislav Vavřínek
Christopher Ventris
Giuseppe Verdi
Emmy Verhey
Pauline Viardot
Helena Vieira
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Antonio Vivaldi
Ricard Viñes
Deborah Voigt
Richard Wagner
Antony Walker
Garry Walker
Benjamin Wallfisch
John Walsh
Yuja Wang
Peter Warlock
Huw Watkins
Elizabeth Watts
André Watts
David Webb
Amherst Webber
Anton Webern
Alisa Weilerstein
Kurt Weill
Mieczysław Weinberg
Judith Weir
R. P. Weston
Melissa White
Matthew White
David Wilde
Mark Wilde
Simon Wilding
Thomas Wilkins
Harriet Williams
John Williams
Roderick Williams
Malcolm Williamson
Peter Wishart
Julia Wolfe
Zun-Hin Woo
Charles Workman
Iannis Xenakis
Pretty Yende
Tony Yike Yang
Esther Yoo
Eugène Ysaÿe
Isang Yun
Maurice Yvain
Adela Zaharia
Anna Zassimova
Chiara Zeffirelli
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Xian Zhang
Krystian Zimerman
Pinchas Zukerman
Jaap van Zweden
Marguerite d'd'Alvarez
Niel van der Watt
Josquin des Prez
Marcelo Álvarez
Otakar Ševčík
Orchestras & Ensembles (124)
American Bach Soloists
American Composers Orchestra
American Symphony Orchestra
Attacca Quartet
Augusta Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra (London)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Baroque Orchestra
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bavarian State Opera (Munich)
Beaux Arts Trio
Belgian National Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic
Birmingham Opera Company
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
British Youth Opera
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Canadian Brass
Central City Opera
Chicago Philharmonic
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati Opera
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
City of London Sinfonia
Columbus Symphony
Czech Philharmonic
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Doric String Quartet
Dunedin Consort
Early Opera Company
English Chamber Orchestra
English National Opera (London)
English Symphony Orchestra
Ensemble Cinquecento
Estonian Festival Orchestra
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Fort Worth Opera
Garsington Opera
Gesualdo Six
Grange Park Opera (West Horsley)
Grant Park Symphony Orchestra
Hanover Band
Houston Symphony
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Kansas City Symphony
Kodály Quartet
Konzerthausorchester Berlin
Kronos Quartet
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Leonore Piano Trio
Les Talens Lyriques (Paris)
London Concertante
London Oriana Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Schools Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra (Barbican Centre)
Lotus
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Manchester Camerata
Marmen
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Metropolitan Opera (New York City)
Minnesota Orchestra (Minneapolis)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Moravian Philharmonic
NDR Radiophilharmonie
Nashville Symphony
National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa)
National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Opera Australia (Sydney)
Opera Holland Park (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
Opera North (Leeds)
Orchestra of Opera North
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Orchestre de la Francophonie
Pacific Symphony (Santa Ana)
Paris Opera Ballet
Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
Philadelphia Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Portland Opera
Quartetto Italiano
Rose Consort of Viols
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Symphony
Santa Fe Opera
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Scottish Opera
Seattle Opera
Seattle Symphony
Seraphic Fire
Sitkovetsky Trio
South Carolina Philharmonic
Southbank Sinfonia
Storioni Trio Amsterdam
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Symphony New Brunswick
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Tallis Scholars
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Tenebrae
Tesla Quartet
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Tippett Quartet
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Tonhalle Orchester Zürich
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Tête à Tête
Utah Symphony – Utah Opera
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna State Opera (Innere Stadt)
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Welsh National Opera (Cardiff)
hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt)
Opera houses, Concert halls & Festivals (50)
Aldeburgh Festival Alice Tully Hall (Manhattan) All Saints' Church, Rome Audi Concerts d'été (Ingolstadt) Bard Music Festival (Annandale-on-Hudson) Bard SummerScape (Annandale-on-Hudson) Bayreuth Festival Bowdoin International Music Festival (Brunswick) Buxton Festival Buxton Opera House Cadogan Hall (London) Carnegie Hall (Manhattan) Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris Colorado Music Festival Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) Early Music Festival (Utrecht) East Neuk Festival Edinburgh International Festival (City of Edinburgh) Elbe Philharmonic Hall (Hamburg-Mitte) Festival de Lanaudière Festival dei Due Mondi (Spoleto) Gewandhaus (Zentrum) Glyndebourne Festival Opera Gran Teatre del Liceu (Ciutat Vella) Grant Park Music Festival (Chicago) Grimeborn (East London) Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles) Klassik Open Air (Nuremberg) Koger Center for the Arts (Columbia) La Scala (Milan) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Manhattan) Longborough Festival Opera Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence) Memorial Opera House (Valparaiso) Nevill Holt Opera (Leicestershire) Opera Saratoga (Saratoga Springs) Opernhaus Wuppertal Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro) Royal Albert Hall (City of Westminster) Royal Opera House (City of Westminster) Salzburg Festival Snape Maltings Tanglewood (Massachusetts) The International Chamber Music Festival in Plovdiv The Proms (London) Three Choirs Festival (Gloucester) Verbier Festival War Memorial Opera House (San Francisco) Wigmore Hall (City of Westminster) York Early Music Festival