Dolora Zajick has decided that the Met’s Kát’a Kabanová next May will be her last appearance.

She will be 68 at that time.

We hear that the Mayor of Milan had a meeting today with Alexander Pereira and Dominique Meyer, outgoing and incoming chiefs of La Scala.

It was agreed that Pereira will stay at la Scala until December 15, starting his new job at the Maggio Musicale in Florence the following day.

Meyer is not due to start until March 1 but he will do his best to bring forward his arrival.

That does not leave much opportunity for a handover.

Pereira, on the other hand, acheives a personal goal of working with Zubin Mehta in Florence before he steps down.

Boston has made three immediate appointments.

Carl Anderson joins the double-basses. Mary Ferrillo and Steven O. Laraia go into the viola section. Laraia was principal viola at Sarasota. Mary Ferrillo, daughter of principal oboe John Ferrillo, has been playing in the orchestra since March; her position is now confirmed.

Rock magazines are wondering who is the classical cellist who covers a Slipknow hit.

Any clues?

‘Only four women pianists have recorded complete cycles of the Beethoven piano sonatas,’ maintains Damian Thompson in this week’s Speccie.

Not Martha. Not Pires. Not Yudina.

So who?

Read here.

The intendant of the Berlin Staatsoper Matthias Schulz has told the local press that his music director Daniel Barenboim rejects allegations that he shook and grabbed a female orchestra manager, Laura Eisen.

He admits, however, to shouting at her over what he now deswcribes as a misunderstanding over his wife’s piano.

Schulz said he discussed the matter separately with both parties and Barenboim was cleared by an investigation. Eisen stands by her story.

The Dutch conductor who has made a career of being music director in two or three countries at the same time is now slowing down.

At 78, he is in his final season with the New Zealand Symphony. After that, he’s done.

‘This new role feels more good than wierd I just have to get used to it,’ he tells a Dutch newspaper.

Read on here.

The Associated Press has produced 11 more testimonies of sexual misconduct against the opera singer.

Angela Turner Wilson, a singer in Washington National Opera’s 1999 production of Jules Massenet’s Le Cid, claims he reached inside her robe and grabbed her breast. She was 28 at the time. ‘It hurt,’ she told AP. ‘It was not gentle. He groped me hard.’ She did not report the incident to the management, fearing it would damage her career.

The AP report is credited to Jocelyn Gecker and Jocelyn Novack. The other accusers remain anonymous.

A Domingo publicist, Nancy Seltzer, said: ‘The ongoing campaign by the AP to denigrate Placido Domingo is not only inaccurate but unethical. These new claims are riddled with inconsistencies and, as with the first story, in many ways, simply incorrect. ‘Due to an ongoing investigation, we will not comment on specifics, but we strongly dispute the misleading picture that the AP is attempting to paint of Mr. Domingo.’

Angela Turner Wilson is today Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Texas Christian University, a post she has held since 2010.