The Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo has upgraded Riccardo Frizza from music director to artistic director. Frizza, 53, has served the festival as music director for the past eight years. Go figure. He says: ‘It […]
Theatre-goers leaving the Haus für Mozart with Festung Hohensalzburg in the background. A final goodbye to this year’s Salzburg Festival, I had an amazing five days, taking in three operas and two concerts, including hearing both […]
The troubled opera house, inaugurated in 1989 as a model of modernity, is scheduled to shut for three years from 2030 because it is falling apart. The stage is on the verge of collapse. The […]