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 […]
It’s all change at the summits. Christoph Müller was named today as Intendant of the Settimane Musicali di Ascona, near Locarno. He joins new Intendant Daniel Hope at Gstaad and new boss Sebastian Nordmann at […]
Bavarian Radio is claiming him as a local lad, whose family spoke German with a strong Swabian accent. The Mozarts lived in Augsburg from the 15th century: there is a plaque in the Fuggerei housing […]