We hear that Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has won the principal flute audition at the Berllin Philharmonic. An announcement is forthcoming later today. Stefán will succeed Sebastian Jacot, who failed to […]
Wole Soyinka Click here to subscribe The greater the honour, the deeper the shame. In British-occupied Nigeria, the king is dead, and it is the duty of his horseman, Elesin, to accompany him into […]
Message from the emigre choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: Tomorrow the BOLSHOI will illegally revive my ballet “BRIGHT STREAM” in Moscow. Six performances without a license and without the name of the choreographer. Nobody expects legality from […]
The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has received a $50 million gift from Lynne and Richard Pasculano, to be spent on contemporary dance. It’s the Lincoln Center’s biggest ever gift. But it’s by no […]
The virtuoso clarinettist Michel Arrignon, a co-founder of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, died today in La Rochelle at the age of 76. Arrignon was principal clarinet of the Paris Opera Orchestra, founder of the Olivier Messiaen […]
The Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy are #1 and #2 respectively in the new QS world university rankings for performing arts. The Paris Conservatoire is 3rd, Guildhall 4th and Vienna 5th. So […]
Bucharest National Opera is premiering Gil Shohat’s The Eichmann Trial at the end of the month. The opera, based in an Israeli stage play by Motti Lerner, aims to ‘keep the memory of the past […]
Lena-Catharina Schneider (pic) is stepping aside as artistic director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, ‘at her own request’. She plans to choose ‘a new career path’ that will achieve a better balance between family life […]
Among Gustavo Dudamel’s plans for his first season at the New York Philharmonic, announced yesterday, is the appointment of the British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason as artist in residence. Also eye-catching is a new orchestral version, […]
Press release: Vienna, March 2025 – To mark the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II, the Vienna Tourist Board and the European Space Agency (ESA), in partnership with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, are sending his masterpiece […]
