Watch: It’s a Schoenberg opening night

I cannot remember an instance when a major festival ordered its entire chorus to reaudition. The Bayreuth press office, however, insists it is entirely routine. Anyone who would like to continue singing in the choir […]

Hamburg Ballet has announced its new Artistic Director. Demis Volpi, 39, is German-Argentine, born in Buenos Aires. He has been Chief Choreographer and Artistic Director of the Ballett am Rhein and has some 30 works […]

The Swiss flute player Sebastian Jacot, denied tenure after two years as principal at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, has just issued a cryptic assessment of his situation: After 12 years in Germany—seven of them in […]