When the former opera chief of Geneva and Paris died in May, followed days later by his husband, the couple were found to own an unknown drawing by Paul Verlaine of the poet Arthur Rimbaud. […]
We hear that all airlines in Europe are routinely overbooked this month. Some worse than others. This cri de coeur has just landed from the celebrated violinist Gidon Kremer: I feel I must share the […]
Next season at Unter den Linden, the first with Christian Thielemann as Daniel Barenboim’s successor, opens with Verdi’s Nabucco. It’s a new production by Emma Dante, opening on October 2. The cast is headed by […]