This is a scene from a new Richard Strauss production in Berlin.
I will confine my criticism to the singer’s ironing technique: that is not how you do men’s collars, darling.
I can just about put up with the lack of taste displayed by German dictator/directors. But the absence of observation trumps all.
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Kent Nagano has been named principal artistic partner of the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma. Dinis Sousa (pic) has been promoted to music director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia in Gateshead-Newcastle. The post Two maestro moves: […]
Message received: Diana Byer, Founder and Director of New York Theatre Ballet School will step down from her position in June following the 2024-25 school year. Byer, who founded New York Theatre Ballet (NYTB) and […]
The emeritus music director of the Chicago Symphony seems charmingly vague about his successor in an interview with Dennis Polkow. Or maybe he’s just kidding, with a touch of malice. Excerpt: “I didn’t want to […]
