Argentina’s Teatro Colon is now run from abroad

The death has been announced of Mariinsky soloist Sergei Aleksashkin, aged 72. He sang abroad at La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, the Washington Opera, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Rome Opera, Hamburg, Opéra National […]

The French conductor got a rude awakening at her season opener from Atlanta critic Mark Gresham: In Mahler’s first symphony, he writes, ‘we got a performance that was mostly serviceable, but not did not rise […]

The American mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Russo, who sang Fricka in Fulham Opera’s Ring cycle, has died of cancer. She was cantor and soloist at Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church in Greenwich, Ct., for 25 years. The […]