A British ensemble’s prayer from Munich

Milko Šparemblek, balletmaster at Maurice Béjart’s Ballet du XXe Siècle in Brussels and later director of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York, has died in Zagreb at a great age. He was also director […]

Lorenzeo Viotti has cancelled two concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic. Esa-Pekka Salonen, already in Salzburg for an opera, jumps in. Press release: To his great regret, Lorenzo Viotti has been forced to cancel his participation […]

At the beginning of the 1870s, Smetana faced a rising number of challenges to his position of artistic director of Prague’s opera ensemble. From this tense and pressured period for the composer sprang a work […]