Fortunato Ortombina is to become the new artistic director of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan from 2025 onwards, if the board of directors has its way. However, Ortombina does not want to move to Milan, as he told the daily newspaper “Corriere del Veneto” yesterday. The 63-year-old Fortunato Ortombina, who currently directs the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, shall take over from Dominique Meyer, whose tenure expires at the end of February 2025. Then Meyer will reach the age…

Seiji Ozawa has died at the age of 88 on February 6th 2024 at his home in Tokyo. The Japanese conductor, who first studied piano but in 1950 had to switch to composition and conducting after he broke two fingers in a rugby game, assisted both Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein. In 1970 Seiji Ozawa was appointed the – first non-European – Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, a position he held until 1976. In 1973 he also…