Herbert Fritsch’s production of The Barber of Seville has some stage business involving opoungent cheese. Krone reports that the foul smell reached the audience and many people walked out. The production has been replaced by […]
From a Barrons interview with Weston Sprott, dean and director of the Preparatory Division at the Juilliard School, and trombonist in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra. I balance full-time teaching at Juilliard and full-time performing with […]
From my introduction to tomorrow’s Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, directly after the Proms: Mahan Esfahani is a breaker of moulds. An Iranian who never went to music school, he flew in the face […]