An opera diector in Latvia, Mstislav Pentkowsky, has produced two editions, English and Hebrew, of the children’s picture book BRUNDIBAR by Hannelore Brenner as a mark of solidarity with the victims ...

The Korean pianist Minsoo Sohn is best known as the teacher of the unique Yunchan Lim. This week his recording of the first volume of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier is out in the stores. Minsoo is 50.

The Corum centre in Montpellier has been shut indefinitely after heavy rains penetrated the roof, causing some ceilings to collapse. The 2,000-seat hall is closed by municipal order until further ...

The New York Times today published a hatchet job on Leon Botstein, 79, the Bard College president who resigned as president of the college over his connections with Jeffrey Epstein but continues to ...

Here’s what we’re hearing from members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa: The musicians have voted unanimously (100%) in favour of strike action. On Monday, the Managing Director, Nelson ...

The death is being mourned of the soprano Janice Dixon, a long-standing performer of major roles in leading German opera houses. A New Yorker by birth, hr roles included Tosca, Marschallin, Senta, ...

The Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit, widely accused of sexual aggression but never prosecuted, turns 90 tomorrow. Dutoit was fired as principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for ...

A 25 year-old from China, Feifan Jiang, has been pronounced winner of the first Guido Cantelli conducting competition in Novara, Italy. He not only took the €12,000 first prize but made a clean sweep ...

The Royal Ballet and Opera has named L’Oréal Paris as its first official beauty partner for the 2026/27 season, with the Royal Ballet principal Marianela Nuñez as the face of the collaboration. Under ...

We hear that the University of Nottingham has decided to close its Department of Music. The faculty has been functioning for more than one hundred years. The decision is part of the University’s ...

It has been announced that Esa-Pekka Salonen will provide ‘mentorship, professional experience and artistic development opportunities’ to young conductors at his positions in Paris and Los Angeles.

The dauntlessly active Hilary Davan Wetton will retire next year as music director in Milton Keynes. He will be 83. He says: ‘It will indeed be the end of an era. I approach it with mixed feelings, ...