Season’s Greetings from all at Planet Hugill

The municipal council of Pforzheim in southwest Germany has appointed Daniel Inbal as its theatre’s next General Music Director. Inbal, whose father Eliahu enjoyed a far-flung international career, has been Kapellmeister for the past 15 […]

The Austrian opera festival, hit by a 30 percent subsidy cut, is looking for help wherever it might be lying exposed. Happily, this week the town of Bregenz declared a new nudist bathing area on […]

Dear Alma, I left my oboe on the train last week. It’s the third time in as many years. The first I blamed on Covid stress. The second was during my divorce. But this time […]