Pick of the Week

The Opéra de Lyon has launched an appeal to recover a saxophone that was stolen from jazz player Jacques Schwarz-Bart on the Paris-Lyon TGV.

Full story here. It is claimed that she is the first opera diva to be awarded the honour of singing the

Lorin has posted what he was about to say at the Davos Economic Forum, had he not been diverted to

Like me, Franz Welser-Möst does yoga. Actually, he’s been doing it a lot longer, but I’m catching up…

We warned that more bits would fall off the troubled agency when Libby Abrahams quit two months ago as v-p. Well,

I ripped open a new Luto release and there was not a single work I knew. It’s the piano music,

Claudio Abbado ci ha lasciati. Ma alla Scala resterà per sempre. It begins: Claudio Abbado has left us, but at La

Seiji Ozawa has posted a short tribute to his comrade: Claudio and I were good friends from before either of