Tag: Der Rosenkavalier
'Critics' Body Blows at Glyndebourne Performer Has Opera Singers in Uproar
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'Purely Administrative: Why Renewing Christoph Eschenbach's National Symphony Orchestra Contract Is a Bad Idea for D.C.
A dark cloud is sure to follow the National Symphony Orchestra this 2014-15 season after the renewal of Christoph Eschenbach's contract as music director. The decision to continue on with Eschy at the podium was "purely administrative" (as if that were an excuse). -
'Franz Welser-Möst Taking Over Zubin Mehta's 'Der Rosenkavalier' at Salzburg
Suffice it to say that Q4 of 2013 hasn't been too kind to, quote, "one of the greatest global living Indians." For starters, Zubin Mehta made a mess of things with Bavaria in Kashmir. (Why there wasn't more of an outcry from the Bayerisches Staatsorchester back in Munich, at least feigning diplomatic disgust, is beyond me.) And now, there's another Teuton, Maestro Franz Welser-Möst, caught in the middle of Mehta's latest in Salzburg.
