A critical sentence on an opera-fan website has entangled Leipzig Oper in a body-shaming storm. The site is deropernfreund.de, the author is Dieter David Scholz and the opera is Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, which ought […]
I’m glad I acquired this enticing new album from the National Symphony Orchestra last November when it first came out – before the egomaniac in the White House sabotaged The Kennedy Center’s honor, credibility and […]
We hear that Aleksi Malmberg, general manager of the Helsinki Philharmonic for the past seven years, is to be Director for the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, starting in March. He says: ‘This […]