Canada’s National Arts Centre last night appointed John Storgårds as the eighth music director of its resident orchestra. Storgårds, 62, is also chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester. Storgårds is Finnish. So is […]
Local philanthropist Penelope Steiner has signed a check to her favourite opera house, where she is deputy board chair. The gift is described as ‘unprecedented, unrestricted’. The post Chicago Lyric receives $25 million unrestricted gift […]
A giant bas-relief of Joseph Stalin has been reinstalled in the Moscow Metro. A group calling itself USSRdays has posted: Friends, I am glad to share with you great news! On the day of […]