Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

The overextended Norwegian conductor has found time to commission a new cello for himself and a violin for his girlfriend Amanda Håoy Horn at an Italian luthier in Florence. Amanda now plays in the Oslo […]

An ecstatic reception of Petrenko’s Mahler Ninth with the Israel Philharmonic has been accompanied by thoughtful reviews. Petrenkko himself wrote in a programme note that he did not accept the collective conducting wisdom that the […]

The opera of Angers Nantes has appointed a successor to the retiring Alain Surans. She is Alexandra Lacroix, founder of la Cie mpda, an independent music theatre company. Not the normal Paris École nationale d’administration […]