Message from the emigre choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: Tomorrow the BOLSHOI will illegally revive my ballet “BRIGHT STREAM” in Moscow. Six performances without a license and without the name of the choreographer. Nobody expects legality from […]
From my monthly essay in the new issue of The Critic magazine: I remember well the day the symphony died. It was August 1975, and I was sitting in a television newsroom when the teleprinter […]
Wagner: Die Walküre – Sarah Wegener, Maximilian Schmitt, Åsa Jäger – Dresdner Musikfestspiele (Photo: Oliver Killig) The prospect of varied events to treasure in Dresden as the Dresdner Musikfestspiele’s (Dresden Music Festival) historically informed Ring […]