There’s a surprise #1 on the Apple Classical global streaming charts this week. It’s a French-US harpsichordist called Justin Taylor playing Chopin on a Pleyel pianino of 1839. The label is Outhere. Is Justin out […]
The 2025 Birgit Nilsson Prize – worth 1 million US dollars – was awarded today to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, whose director Pierre Audi died tragically two weeks ago. The citation says: ‘With its forward-looking and […]
Le Figaro reports that the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg has chosen its next director. Chrysoline Dupont is presently production director at the Opera Comique in Paris. She succeeds Alain Perroux, who is off […]