Violinist Chris Wu has retired from the orchestra after 36 years. In a parting interview with the Post-Gazette, he makes caustic comments about life in the orchestra. Unfortunately, the headlines are all we can see […]
The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera has chosen Ilya Ram as Music Director, only the fourth in 91 years. Ram, 33, is presently in charge of the orchestra at Leipzig University. Back home in Tel Aviv, […]
The founder of Chicago Baroque Ensemble John Mark Rozendaal was arrested yesterday while playing his cello in a stop-oil protest outside Citibank headquarters in New York. Rozendaal, 63, was the subject of a restraining order, […]
The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra has just announced the Swiss Lorenzo Viotti as its next music director. Viotti, presently with Netherlands Opera, is known best for his narcissitic selfies on social media. Press release: Tokyo […]
The Canada-born soloist Jean Guihen Queyras is heading for Ukraine to bring relief to the suffering. He writes: Dear friends, In two weeks, I will be travelling to Kyiv to give a concert with Camerata […]
Message received from the Vienna Phil: We mourn the loss of Dr. Fritz Sterz, our esteemed doctor and friend of the orchestra. His dedication and care for our orchestra over the years, both in Vienna […]
Here’s what the programme says: Parsifal Andreas Schager Tilmann Unger 7.8. (Umbesetzung) (1. Aufzug) Klaus Florian Vogt 7.8. (Umbesetzung) (2. und 3. Aufzug) What happened? Schager got sick. Vogt was flown in but missed a […]
Conserving Rusconi: Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, and served as an artilleryman, the third class of arms in the Roman army. Little is […]
Die Walküre stands at the pinnacle of Romantic musical drama. Barely has the curtain opened when Wagner unleashes orchestral writing that sweeps everything away in its path. Storm, incest, divine wrath, irrepressible passion: everything is there […]
The death has been communicated of the US mezzo-soprano Dorothy Krebill, widow of Plato Steven Karayanis, who was general director of the Dallas Opera for 23 years. Together, they made Dallas a home for fine […]
