The Bayreuth boss is not having much luck when she directs away from home. Here’s Javier Pérez Senz for Scherzo on her Lohengrin. The premiere of the production of Lohengrin, directed by Katharina Wagner, the […]
Two and a half years since the conductor Vasily Petrenko left Russia over the Putin invasion of Ukraine, the authorities have finally replaced him at the head of the Svetlanov symphony Orchestra. The new baton […]
The German gadfly Axel Brüggemann reports that Dresden’s sometime Semper Ball chief Hans-Joachim Frey is organising a St Petersburg Ball for his patron, Vladimir Putin. Top of the bill is Putin’s cellist and money-launderer Sergey […]