We have learned of the death of Jaroslav Mihule, noted authority on the life and works of Bohuslav Martinu and artistic administration at leading Czech opera houses.
The festival is making stringent economies. Before it began, Katharina Wagner said that, after cuts, the chorus would be maintained at 134 singers. Today, the festival website listed 118. Tobias Könemann of the Union of […]
Swiss based Artists Management Company has signed the Berlin Philharmonic’s assistant conductor Christian Blex. Blex, 31, has come up through the Siemens Conductors Scholarship of the Karajan Academy. The post Berlin Phil assistant baton gets […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Music of the Second Vienna School was condemned as noise on first reception. How deaf is that? The greatest asset of these revolutionary works is their quietude. The […]