The name of the next music director will be announced in the course of today.
Daniele Gatti has been the favoured candidate of the Mayor of Milan and of the company’s Sovrintendente Fortunato Ortombina.
However, the Meloni government is signalling its support for a different candidate – the Korean, Myung Whun Chung.
All will soon be resolved.
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The death has been made known of the Edinburgh based cellist Christian Elliott, a member of the Zehetmair Quartet for the past decade and former principal cellist of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Christian, who was […]
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This is a scene from a new Richard Strauss production in Berlin. I will confine my criticism to the singer’s ironing technique: that is not how you do men’s collars, darling. I can just about […]
