Maria Callas 101

… comes from our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: When you read about it beforehand, the Albert Hall Prom of July 21 – played by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by John Storgårds – seemed to […]

We hear that the Teatro Sancarlo in Naples, which evicted the Frenchman Stéphane Lissner on government orders, is about to instal Fulvio Macciardi of Bologna as his successor as sovrintendente. Macciardi hired Oksana Lyniv in […]

The Colorado Symphony has promoted its principal conductor, Peter Oundjian, to music director. The agreeable Oundjian was formerly chief of the Toronto Symphony and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Long before that, he played a football […]