The Munich Philharmonic, which recently installed Lahav Shani as chief conductor, also has a new CEO.
Paul Müller is departing after 16 years. His successor next year will be Florian Wiegand, presently director of concerts and media at the Salzburg Festival.
The Latvian Ainars Rubikis signed on last week as chief conductor of the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck, Austria. They are not pleased about that in Kassel, Germany, where Rubikis was recently appointed General Music Director […]
From a forthright interview by Jeffrey Arlo Brown with violinist Michael Barenboim for VAN magazine: Would you describe yourself as an anti-Zionist? I definitely don’t see the point in trying to maintain this ideology […]
The Vienna State Opera has confirmed that Anna Netrebko will sing in German for the first time on its stage in January. She is cast as Prima Donna in Richard Strauss’s opera, Ariadne auf Naxos. […]