Forever young? Yannick turns 50

It has emerged that the resignation of Francois-Xavier Roth as Generalmusikdirektor of the city of Cologne was secured on two conditions. The first was a payoff for his silence – 200,000 Euros, apparently. The other […]

The Swiss choral composer François Pantillon has died, a month after his 97th birthday. Pantillon published many tonal Christian choral pieces and cantatas before a friendship with Krzysztof Penderecki led him to a more adventurous, […]

The Finns plan next season to premiere an opera of Karl Ove Knausgård’s autobiographical series of novels, Min Kamp, which runs to 3,500 pages and is presently stopping many household doors. The Norwegian is described […]