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 ...

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 last stragglers of the classic record industry gathered last night to acclaim their house magazine’s annual awards. Esoteric doesn’t begin to describe the selection. The record of the year is the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

She had just been made executive director of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society. They fired her on the spot. Now, the lawyers are having a firled day.

Tell me they have found a lost concerto by a cherished composer and I’ll be onto it faster than a ferret up a trouser-leg. In the case, it’s a supposed concerto by Alexander Zemlinsky, Mahler’s staff ...