City Opera has parted company with Michael Capasso, its general director. Contrary to the usual bromides, we hear the board voted him out. Either way, Capasso says he’s going to live in Italy.
The next Executive Director and Music Director is to be Constantine Orbelian (pic).
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The Rachmaninoff Conservatory of Paris, founded in 1923 by the exiled Fyodor Chaliapin and Alexander Glazunov, has inaugurated a statue of its namesake. The sculptor is Besik Solomonashvili and the image looks more like FDR […]
Among today’s six recipients of an honorary PhD at Harvard is the LA Phil’s outgoing music director. He is decorated as a doctor of music. Five of the six PhDs are from minority ethnicities. The […]
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