The Orchestre National de France has named Johannes Neubert, outgoing chief exec of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, as its next délégué général, or CEO.

Neubert, 49, will take up the post in September.

It’s a bold call. French orchestras rarely look beyond their borders for delicate managerial arts roles.

The Bolshoi has announced the death after a long illness of Alexander Sotnikov, principal conductor from 1995 to 2002. He conducted some 60 ballets and operas in the house.

Abroad, he conducted for Royal Danish Ballet, and in Hungary, Portugal and Japan.

The great German bass-baritone Theo Adam died yesterday in his hometown, Dresden.

After a Dresden debut in 1948, he joined the East Berlin state opera, where he specialised in Wagner roles. He sang his first Wotan in 1963.

A perennial at Bayreuth, he was a particular favourite of the Berlin Philharmonic and Salzburg chief, Herbert von Karajan, who employed him on numerous engagements and recordings. He appeared at Covent Garden from 1967 and at the Met from 1969. One of his major triumphs was Wozzeck at Salzburg in 1972.

From Deutsche Welle’s documentary with conductor Alondra de la Parra:

‘In 99 percent of the interviews, I get asked questions that I know that my male colleagues would never get asked. So I am going to do something interesting about that, and it’s going to be really fun, you’ll see!

‘But yes, there’s just no way out of these very strange questions that almost every person who interviews me asks.

Such as?

Like: ‘Do you feel the musicians are distracted because you’re beautiful?” They wouldn’t ask Paavo Järvi that! Or Simon Rattle or Daniel Barenboim. Or things like: “How do you manage your time with being a mother and a conductor?” Well, all these male conductors also have kids, and they never get asked that, do they?’

Read on here.

Aboud Kaplo left Aleppo with not much more than his violin case.

Now 14, he has been accepted into the Sydney Youth Orchestra.

Read and watch here.

A curiously addictive video of Fratres from the Israeli violinist Hagar Maoz and dancer Tamar Bardosh.

You see it here first.

Take a look at this well-nourished infographic.

There’s a PR payoff at the end, but there’s lots of detail in the middle that we never knew.

And maybe a few errors.