Lyric Opera of Chicago averted a walkout on the gala opening night of its new season (see http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/culture-club/culture-club/2009/09/lyric-opera-of-chicago-opening-night-threatened/), but all is definitely not well on Wacker Drive.
Members of the orchestra handed out leaflets to patrons as they arrived at the…
Maestro Muti
The distinguished Italian conductor Riccardo Muti has added another prestigious job to an already loaded resume: He’ll run the Rome Opera, starting in December 2010.
It’s not as though he needs the work; Muti will be music director of the…
It marks a sea change: The hardnosed musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra — the orchestra that shut down the CSO for the 100th anniversary performances that would also have been Daniel Barenboim’s first concerts as music director, one of…
Henry Fogel, long the president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and then of the League of American Orchestras (former the American Symphony Orchestra League) could reasonably retire after heading a Big Five orchestra from 1985 to 2003 and then heading…
The British music magazine Gramophone has compiled a list of what its editors and a few select others consider the world’s best orchestras. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra isn’t on it.
Some of the selections may reflect the locations of the…
