Argentina’s Teatro Colon is now run from abroad

You might think that having Esa-Pekka Salonen quitting as music director would have mitigated the SFSO’s appetite for public conflict. Not a bit of it. Last week the musicians distributed leaflets before a concert honouring […]

From the CSOA annual report: The CSOA’s results from operations included total revenues of $78.8 million and expenses of $80.2 million resulting in an operating deficit of $1.4 million. Total endowment and other investments were […]

The composer was a man of his times, private and even prudish about his sexual arrangements. While he dealt with homosexual themes in several operas, he never expressed homoeroticism or encouraged nudity on stage. The […]