The new big bone at the Gewandhaus orchestra is Polina Tarasenko, 23. She’s from Kherson in Ukraine. Polina was a student of Ian Bousfield at the University of Arts Bern before joining the Mendelssohn Academy […]
A panoply of politicians, writers and not-quite celebrities have written to the Guardian, urging the Royal Opera House to cancel the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, who will sing Tosca next month and Turandot later in […]
We have been hearing of senior redundancies at ON, which are denied. This, however, is the official line: ‘Opera North has announced this week that it has undertaken a leadership review that aims to put […]