The Czech National Theatre has started the year by replacing its chief conductor and chorusmaster. Out goes Andriy Yurkevych, ‘who is leaving the post for personal reasons’. Yurkevych, a Ukrainian, has been in the post […]
The Edinburgh International Festival has appointed two new heads of artistic management and music programming. Paul Sharp and Nick Zekulin will cover for director Nicola Benedetti, who is on maternity leave. Zekulin (pic) is general […]
The soprano, presently divorcing tenor Yusif Eyvazov, posted the attached selfie on her Instagram account last week. The picture was unsaved and disappeared after 24 hours. Plenty of fans circulated it, however. And Austria’s Kronenzeitung […]