Maria Callas 101

John Eliot Gardiner’s Springhead Constellation – his successor to the Monteverdi orchestras – was supposed to make its debut tonight at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. But their flight was delayed by bad weather at London’s Heathrow airport, […]

In 1973, Zubin Mehta plucked Matthew Garbutt, 21, from Los Angeles as principal tuba of the Israel Philharmonic. Garbutt held the position for three interesting years before returning to the US. He then settled in […]

Remember when they didn’t start selling tickets until May? And everything sold out within hours. The Bayreuth Festival has just put its 150th anniversary festival on show, and partly on sale. Christian Thielemann will open […]