Puccini’s adaptation of the novel by Abbé Prévost had a complicated gestation. An alarmingly long list of librettists attempted to satisfy the composer’s demands in terms of dramatic structure and fine verbal detail. Was Puccini […]
There’s a new Peter Danish play opening off Broadway in mid-March about an imagined last meeting between Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna. We’ve had a sneak peek at […]
The floundering Cleveland Institute of Music has hired Tito Munoz to stand in for two years while it reorganises orchestral teaching. They put a bold face on it in a puffy announcement: Roll out the […]