Time for Yuja?

Two and a half years since the conductor Vasily Petrenko left Russia over the Putin invasion of Ukraine, the authorities have finally replaced him at the head of the Svetlanov symphony Orchestra. The new baton […]

Bobby Darin ​Just in Time, the musical about the late Bobby Darin, was the only major Tony contender I didn’t manage to see while I was in New York, although I tried, but here, to […]

The Georgian-Russian music conductor Vakhtang Machavariani, head of the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra in Tbilisi since 1996, has died at the age of 74. In 1990 he created the Soviet Festival Orchestra while also conducting […]