Just before Christmas, the audience for Rigoletto were rushed out of the Royal Opera House on the very last chord of Rigoletto, due to what was announced as a fire emergency and turned ot to be a bomb scare.
Earlier last year, in August, the area around the ROH was put on lockdown while a suspicious package was identified.
This week, on Tuesday morning, the ROH was evacuated during rehearsal. Another bomb scare.
Either the threat level has significantly increased, or someone in security is a bit hypersensitive.
The Mexican Javier Camarena has been replaced in this week’s performances of the Met’s unhappy Semiramide production by a house understudy, Robert McPherson.
Camareno called in sick last Saturday. The Met has just announced his absence.
News that Mirga is expecting a baby has brought on an attack of the goo-goos at Slipped Disc Towers.
Back then, you could hand the baby back.
Now you take it to work.
And book yourself on Sesame Street.
Doug Sheldon has taken on North America representation for Alma Deutscher, the media-friendly British child who wrote a piano sonata at 6 and an opera when she was nine.
She turned 13 last month.
Christopher Ward, 37, has been appointed MD in Aachen.
The decision is due to be ratified next week by the city council and he will start work in the summer.
A former Rattle assistant, Ward succeeds the US conductor Kazim Abdullah. Perhaps Aachen is no longer the launchpad it once was for Herbert von Karajan.
