Lang Lang got a Christmas sweater

Herbert Fritsch’s production of The Barber of Seville has some stage business involving opoungent cheese. Krone reports that the foul smell reached the audience and many people walked out. The production has been replaced by […]

Deborah Rutter left the Chicago Symphony Orchestra after a confrontation with music director Riccardo Muti. Neither backed down. One had to go. Rutter has now been sacked  by a bigger bully in the White House. […]

Frankfurt’s young General Music Director Thomas Guggeis conducted his first Parsifal last night. He is 31. The director, Brigitte Fassbender, was also staging her first Parsifal. She’s 85. It went pretty well, by all accounts. […]