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.

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 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 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 ...

Within hours of a New York Times hatchet-job on the former Bard president, a senior Congressman published an email from Bostein to the sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in which Botstein allegedly asked ...

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 ...

It took 14 years and 1.5 billion Euros to rebuild the Cologne Opera House, leaving it looking even ghastlier than before. Last month’s opening production of Der Rosenkavalier was uniformly hooted as a ...

Police in Japan have charged the pianist Kyohei Sorita with a serious speeding violation. He is alleged to have been driving at 144 kilometres per hour last December in a zone where the limit is 60kph ...

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 ...