Pick of the Week

The Russian-American conductor Mikhail Agrest, a staffer at the Mariinsky since 2001, has been appointed music director of Stuttgart Ballet.

The conductor Alain Antinoglu has made the bold decision to include in the Bastille Day concert at the Eiffel Tower

Meet Chloe Flower, tomorrow’s classic. Juilliard trained, she is now 33 and doing her own thing.   Sarah Thwaites, Label

The violin pedagogue Edward Wulfson has given a combative interview to the Russian journalist Marina Arshinova. In it, he asserts

The death is reported of the US baritone Robert Orth, a committed singer of new operas by American composers. Aside

The Canadian bass Joseph Rouleau, who sang at Covent Garden for quarter of a century, has died at a great

Fiammetta Rocco has written a beautiful obituary in this week’s Economist of Jennie Litvack, a World Bank executive in Washington

An academic perspective from the other side of the world: As opera audiences continue to dwindle, companies need to find a

Or watched Michala Petri corpse in mid-recital? You have now… Has there ever been a funnier Dane since Hamlet?  

Samantha Domingo was a member of the Church of Scientology for 22 years together with ex-husband Plácido Jr and their

James MacMillan has a blast at the leftwing newspaper that last week questioned the point of classical music:   I