A chance for the viola – and about time, too

We hear that Spanish violinst Raquel Areal Martinez has pased her audition and been offered a place in the Berlin Philharmonic. Raquel, 25, from Galicia, is presently a scholar in the orchestra’s Karajan Academy. She […]

In an impassioned open letter to the Senate not to cancel the Komische Oper renovation, its former Australian director – never knowingly unexaggerated – goes way over the top. We reprint the relevant sections from […]

Julia Albrecht has left KD Schmid for CCM, where she will be Director of Artists & Development. After more than two decades at Schmid, whe will not have overview of such artists as Hélène Grimaud, […]