New York agency winds down

The hopelessly discredited funding body announced a major U-turn today. After years of complaint that it was making arts orgs spend more time on filling forms than making art, it has eased the rules for […]

The countryhouse opera festival at Nevill Holt, which was severely shrunk last summer, has formed a five-year partnership with the regional opera company to improve its future offer. Up to a point. Here’s the gist: […]

We hear that the Baden-Baden audience erupted last night after a performance of VW’s second symphony by the SWR orchestra, conducted by the boyish Finn, Tarmo Peltokoski. The first half of Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo Suite […]