The Nutcracker auction has ended in Moscow, with bids coming in from all over Russia for scarce and expensive tickets in the Bolshoi’s seasonal run of 18 shows. The starting price was 50,000 rubles. The […]
The composer has come out bitterly against the belated first Berlin staging of his 1987 opera. This @deutsche_oper production: painful to even think about. “Nixon in China” is so often mistreated or misunderstood. In 35 […]
Preservation Hall jazz club in New Orleans has named Japanese pianist Mari Watanabe as a winner of this year’s Legacy Awards. Watanabe, 59, is the first Japanese musician to be recognised in the homeland of […]