HarrisonParrott’s Paris office has signed the Polish conductor Barbara Dragan, formerly with a Vienna boutique.
Trained in Hamburg and Berlin, Dragan, 35, presided over pre-recordings of the 2024 Olympics with two Paris orchestras.
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The widely admired Christoph Nel died on Monday, aged 80. Working mostly in Frankfurt, he also directed in Stuttgart, Hannover, Munich, Mannheim and Berlin. The post German opera director, RIP appeared first on Slippedisc.
The special award of Bavaria’s culture prizes for 2024 was bestowed today on the Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv, the first woman to conduct an opera at the Bayreuth Festival. ‘Oksana Lyniv is a top-class conductor, […]
Netflix has begun streaming a short documentary on the double-bassist Orin O’Brien, who became the first female member of the New York Philharmonic in 1966 under Leonard Bernstein. There were no dressing rooms for women. […]
