Can’t get a coffee without someone singing opera

Anna Starushkevych’s fascinating newsletter has produced a bulletin from Maestro Roman Dzundza of the Ivano-Frankivsk Philharmonic, ‘a mosaic of the cultural existence of a Ukrainian symphony orchestra’: The obvious challenges start with the orchestra’s budget […]

The audience were evacuated Friday night from a performance of Lully’s opera Perseus. Fire broke out five minutes into the performance, apparently from a kitchen in the basement. Report here.   The post Fire at […]

The Philadelphia Orchestra are putting a brave face on the almost-instant departure of CEO Matias Tarnopolsky to head up the New York Philharmonic. Tarnopolsky leaves in less than a month, no time at all to […]