Andreas Scholl interview from The Guardian

Beginning in 2017, Sir Simon Rattle will take over as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra. The popular and charismatic conductor now 60, has been the Chief Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2002. Click here to read the full feature.    

If you remember soprano Sumi Jo’s sudden departure from Sydney and the role of Lucia and the more recent cancellations of tours by Jessye Norman and Deborah Voigt, then you’re no stranger to the vagaries of casting in opera. Zachary Woolf of the New York Times takes a closer look: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/arts/music/karita-mattila-and-peter-gelb-on-cancellations.html?ref=music