Opera
Bavarian Soprano Diana Damrau Follows Anna Netrebko's Downtown Path to (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Column: The Crisis of the United States of America's Classical Recording Scene
What on earth is happening--has already happened, actually--to the North America classical music recordings scene? The self-extraction of yet a famous New York store, J&R, from classical music underlines yet again how dire things have got in the entire region. But just the disappearance of high-street shops doesn't explain it all away. 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.
