The Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award 2016, one of the best career springboards, was won today by Aziz Shokhakimov, 27, from Uzbekistan. The losing finalists

From an interview with Jordi in Platea magazine: I was part of a group of artists who decided to take risks. And thanks to that,

It had been widely reported that she had been cast as Elsa in Lohengrin in 2018. Forget it, she tells Eleanore Büning in a wide-ranging

Maroine Dib is one of the livelier artists on display at the festival. More striking caricatures here. And one more for luck:

From a soft interview with ZealNYC: Opera is an old art form, it is in foreign languages, and is typically longer than movies and plays.

Pedro Kuczynski, who was sworn in last week as president in Lima, spent a year studying piano and flute at the Royal College of Music before

An economist at the University of Southern Denmark, Karol Jan Borowieck, has conducted that composer write better when they are miserable. He achieved this blinding insight

They don’t waste time in Southern California. The LA Phil have been in touch to confirm our report that David Rejano Cantero will be its new

The Russian pianist Nikita Mndoyants came first in the Cleveland International Piano Competition. His prize is $75,000, a New York recital and US management. The

Marek Janowski, who is conucting Frank Castorf’s Ring at Bayreuth, has spoken out against the Regietheater trend which, he says, has no rightful place in