The Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo has upgraded Riccardo Frizza from music director to artistic director. Frizza, 53, has served the festival as music director for the past eight years. Go figure. He says: ‘It […]
One of the last students of Alexander Goldenweiser, the Moscow pianist Nelly Akopian Tamarina died today at the age of 84. Banned for a while by the Soviets, she taught in London at the Royal […]
A couple of days after Asmik Grigorian pulled out of Munich’s Flying Dutchman at the end of this month, the Dutchman himself has cancelled. Gerald Finley is out. Nicholas Brownlee jumps in. Camilla Nylund replaces […]