The home of Italian opera has renewed its music director’s contract, but only until the end of next year. Riccardo Chailly, 72, has been in charge since 2017 but has suffered bouts of ill-health. The […]
In the past few minutes it has been decided that the next chief at La Scala will be the Korean conductor Myung Whun Chung. Catch your breath. He will start in 2027. The favourite to […]
Dresden’s Frauenkirche has completed a gruelling audition of 29 candidates for its vacant organ bench. The winner was also one of the youngest. Nilkas Jahn comes from Fulda in Hesse. He studied church music, organ […]
