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 […]
The tenor writes: Refreshing time in the pool during my busy summer…enjoying a few days off before heading to Gstaad to perform the second act of “Tristan und Isolde” on August 23rd! The post Jonas […]
The death has been reported of Alexander Mndoyants, one of Moscow’s most respected piano teachers. A finalist in the 1977 Van Cliburn Competition – alongside Sasha Toradze, Michel Dalberto and the shortlived winner Steven De […]
Michael Volle (pic) has suffered an injury and cannot sing the Flying Dutchman title role tonight. His replacement is the experienced Tomasz Konieczny. That’s two nights running that the title singer had to be replaced […]
