Court papers have been filed in New York by the Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, claiming that the Metropolitan Opera cancelled her contract while she was pregnant. She says the contract, which included Aida, La Gioconda, […]
German opera houses are sharing their shock at the unexpected death in Berlin of the highly regarded Rainer Casper. A career-long partner of the director Frank Castorf, he started out at the Volksbühne in Berlin […]
The choreographer Doris Uhlich has been awarded this year’s state price for dancing naked in January while covering herself in powder in th former imperial resort of Bad Ischl. Must be something original in the […]