The british conductor Jonathan Nott will end his leadership next season of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. No successor has been named. But the season’s guest conductors are predominantly women – Eun Sun Kim (pic), Karina Canellakis, Barbara Dragan, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Simone Young.
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has appointed a Venezuelan violinist, Gabriela Lara, to the first violin section. Gabriela was otating concertmaster of the CSO’s Civic Orchestra of Chicago until a year ago, when she joined the […]
The unsettlingly slow avantgardist Alexander Knaifel died today suddenly at the age of 80. He made his living writing for Soviet movies and his reputation with two Eng-lit operas, operas The Ghost of Canterville and […]
Deutsch Oper Berlin has learned of the death, last Thursday, of the international set and costume designer Gottfried Pilz. Pilz, who retired two years ago, was 80. Austrian born, he flourished in Berlin alongside Götz […]
