Pick of the Week

The prolific, notably successful opera composer Dominick Argento died on Wednesday in Minneapolis, where he lived for six decades. The

It has been announced that Sakari Oramo will conduct William Alwyn’s opera on Strindberg’s Miss Julie as the curtain raiser

From the Olympic hockey gold medallist Samantha Quek:   Just been asked to leave my seat at the Opera because

Simon Rattle’s third season with the London Symphony Orchestra, just rolled out, features a limited acknowledgement of Beethoven’s 250th birthday

An 11 year-old Australian violinist, Christian Li, was making his debut with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra yesterday when he sprang

The German controversialist Manuel Brug quotes from three musicians who say they suffered intolerable bullying from Daniel Barenboim while playing

She will sing Elisabetta for the first time in Dresden’s production of Verdi’s Don Carlo next season, opposite her husband

We have been notified of the death of Ekkehard Wlaschiha, a notable Wagner baritone who sang Alberich at the Met’s PBS broadcast

The South Florida Symphony tonight informed cast members of Porgy and Bess that they have, at last, been paid. It

Berg’s Wozzeck – which the New York Times has already puffed as ‘harrowing’- plus Handel’s Agrippina, Philip Glass’s Akhnaten, Porgy and

Later today the Met will announce that its next season will open with Gershwin’s opera in an English/Dutch National Opera