At the LA Phil, Gustavo Dudamel got on exceedingly well with his precedessor as music director Esa-Pekka Salonon.
Looks like the pact is transferring to New York. Dude will be MD. E-P is taking the orch to South Korea.
This is him at a press conference in Seoul this morning.
Everyone happy?
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Rudolf Nureyev and Miss Piggy This clip needs no introduction. Perhaps the most incongruous pairing ever captured on video, a love duet between Rudolf Nureyev and Miss Piggy singing Baby It’s Cold Outside. Nureyev doesn’t need to pantomime discomfort, he […]
Waterperry Opera Festival, near Oxford, has appointed John Savournin as CEO and Artistic Director from September. Savournin is an active bass-baritone with leading UK opera companies. The post Bass-baritone to run opera festival appeared first […]
The conductor Susanna Mälkki, left high and dry when Mark Newbanks closed his agency has week, has landed at Intermusica. Her admirer Deborah Borda is one of its directors. She will be represented by Dennis […]
