The German gadfly Axel Brüggemann reports that Dresden’s sometime Semper Ball chief Hans-Joachim Frey is organising a St Petersburg Ball for his patron, Vladimir Putin. Top of the bill is Putin’s cellist and money-launderer Sergey […]
The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez lived for sixty years across the border in Baden-Baden and is buried there. Next year is the centenary of his birth. The town of Baden-Baden is planning its […]
The Swiss big-tent festival plans to open a satellite event in Shenzhen this winter. They say: The inaugural 2026 “Verbier Festival in Shenzhen” will run for ten days, from 30 January to 8 February 2026, […]