Ballet
The Column: The Crisis of the United States of America's Classical Recording Scene
RIP: Senator Claudio Abbado, Decca/DG's Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (1933-2014)
Italian conductor Claudio Abbado--music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic--is dead at age 80. Scandal-Prone Bolshoi Theater Announces New Music Director, Tugan Sokhiev
The troubled Bolshoi Theater announced its new music director on Monday at a press conference in Moscow: 36-year-old conductor Tugan Sokhiev, who has been appointed to help rehabilitate the reputation of the venerable theater after a series of scandals.
