The new production at Arena di Verona has been totally detached from Verdi’s story of Jewish exiles in Babylon. The costumes are space suits, the stage set looks like a post-modern, peripheral bus terminus and […]
The Orchestre de Paris has plucked Sarah Nemtanu from the Orchestre National de France as its new first solo violin. She succeeds the late Philippe Aïche and the retired Roland Daugareil, having held the #1 […]
The Jacksonville Symphony in Florida, which recently banked an anonymous $15 million donation, has just received a $3 million top-up from the Terry Family Foundation. The orchestra says: ‘This remarkable gift will strengthen the Symphony’s […]