This is surely Sir Antonio Pappano’s “Wagner period”: his recent Siegfried, the latest instrument of an ongoing Ring at RBO revealed, to my ears at least, his finest Wanger to date. He has, of course, […]
Salzburg today declared 98.2 percent ticket sales. Bayreuth put up sold-out notices. Lucerne has yet to announce but it’s clear that the elite festivals are back where they were before Covid. Which is good for […]
The Music Academy of the West has just bought itself a plot for a year-round Music Education Center. The purchase was facilitated by a $20 million gift from Cheryl Goldberg (pictured), in memory of her […]