We have learned of the death of Jaroslav Mihule, noted authority on the life and works of Bohuslav Martinu and artistic administration at leading Czech opera houses.
It’s the cast of the Norwegian National opera production, conducted by Ed Gardner. Lise Davidsen is Senta, Gerald Finley the Dutchman. Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Erik, Brindley Sherratt as Daland and Anna Kissjudit as Mary […]
This month I’m launching Backgrounders, a monthly illustrated intensive look into a person or event in the arts news that I don’t have space for on Ruth Leon’s Theatrewise. Please let me know if you’d like to receive Backgrounders. There […]
There has been much chatter of late on this site and elsewhere on the predominance of Finns in the global podium. From a nation that conducts intense conversations chiefly with its shoelaces, this phenomenon is […]