The reorganization plan defined by Commissioner Charles Fuortes for the Arena in Verona has been approved by a large majority of the members of orchestra, ballet as well as technical and administrative entities. This allows the access to the procedure for obtaining the funding provided by the law Bray for operatic and symphonic foundations in crisis. The Arena’s opera festival will open in a week with the premiere of Carmen.

Joana Mallwitz
(c) Nikolaj Lund

Die deutsche Dirigentin Joana Mallwitz (*1986) hat ihren Vertrag als Generalmusikdirektorin am Erfurter Theater bis 2018 verlängert. Sie hat die Stelle 2014 angetreten.

Die ‘Digital Concert Hall’ der Berliner Philharmoniker ist durch eine neu entwickelte App nun auch über ‘Apple TV’ verfügbar. Die App steht kostenlos im App Store zum Download bereit, entwickelt wurde sie exklusiv für Apple TV 4. Read More →

Maurice Ravel

The association Les Amis de Maurice Ravel has launched an international petition for the return of all missing documents and property of Maurice Ravel to the care of the public archives in France. Read More →

Der niederländische Bassist Peter Kooij ist mit der Bach-Medaille der Stadt Leipzig ausgezeichnet worden. Seit den 1980er Jahren hat der herausragende Bach-Interpret mit seiner warmen, ausdrucksstarken und nuancenreichen Stimme bei weit mehr als 100 CD-Aufnahmen der Musik des Thomaskantors mitgewirkt. Read More →

Villa in Hertenstein

Russia’s Minister of Culture, Vladimir Medinsky, told the press, that the project to purchase Sergei Rachmaninov’s Villa Senar in Switzerland had to be frozen, partly because of the sanctions and partly due to a lack of a consolidated position of the composer’s heirs. Russia wanted to buy the house with all its components, while the family proposed to sell everything separately, the house, the piano, the furniture, and the paintings. This was unacceptable for the Russian State, Medinsky told the press. Read More →

Marin Alsop
Photo: Grant Leighton

Three months before the expiration of the current contract, management and musicians of Marin Alsop’s Baltimore Symphony Orchestra reached an agreement to extend that contract for another year. According to the Baltimore Sun, it gives the musicians a 3,96 percent raise. Minimum base salary will reach $79,800.

Die Wiener Sängerknaben eröffnen eine Schule in Hongkong. Die ‘Vienna Boys Choir International School’ soll 2017 oder spätestens 2018 nach dem Vorbild der musikalischen Ausbildung im Institut der Wiener Sängerknaben in Wien starten. Read More →

Fouad Fahouri

Lebanese-born American conductor Fouad Fakhouri, 43, has been named music director of the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra (Michigan, USA). Fakhouri served as the director of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra (North Carolina) since 2004.

Emmanuel Krivine
(c) Christian Aschman

Emmanuel Krivine, recently appointed Music Director of the Paris based Orchestra National de France, is the first French conductor to lead this orchestra since Jean Martinon (1968-1973). When he conducted the orchestra in September 2015, he thought the chemistry was good enough to go for the job. Read More →