The Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo has upgraded Riccardo Frizza from music director to artistic director. Frizza, 53, has served the festival as music director for the past eight years. Go figure. He says: ‘It […]
Court papers have been filed in New York by the Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, claiming that the Metropolitan Opera cancelled her contract while she was pregnant. She says the contract, which included Aida, La Gioconda, […]
The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, based in San Francisco, has named Peter Whelan as its next music director. Whelan, 47, will take up the baton a year from now. He succeeds Richard Egarr. Meantime, he will […]