Something great in C major

The formative director of Saint-Etienne opera, Jean Louis Pichon, has been found dead at his home, local media have reported. He was 77. The cause of death is under investigation. Pichon ran his hometown opera […]

The independent minded theatre director Wolfgang Engel has died at 81. He made his name internationally with a Dresden production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, refusing the East German state prize as a mark […]

The Ensemble Intercontemporain is to be run by a German broadcasting executive called Patrick Hahn (not to be confused with the young Austrian conductor of the same name). Hahn has programmed a “Musik der Zeit” […]