The sought-after Albanian tenor  Saimir Pirgu has joined AskonasHolt for global management (except Italy). He was formerly with a Swiss management.  

Bell Percussion, one of the world’s leading music hire companies, has decided it cannot cope any longer through Covid. After 30 years, Mike Bell is

The world’s best boutique classical label has a big birthday today. Here’s the official history: On 1st October 1980 – 40 years ago to the

A trustworthy source in St Petersburg tells us that 74 out of 140 members of the Mariinsky choir have tested positive with Covid-19, as well

The Norwegian authorities have ordered James Gaffigan to leave the country by Monday after he concludes a quarantine period. Gaffigan, 41, was accused of breaking

The conductor has been put in charge of an $11 million renovation programme at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg. The arrangement was announced by

Melbourne’s Monash University has published plans to scrap teaching musicology and ethnomusicology as part of  a wave of funding cuts. Monash will also shut down

Cecilia Bartoli will be singing two arias with Andrea Bocelli on his new album, ‘Believe’, out next month. The most particular of mezzos with the

The chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, unpaid for six months, have recorded a project with Rhiannon Giddens in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Anna Prohaska performs in May 2020 for her Berlin neighbours. One of Ravel’s birds of paradise, the perfect image of escape.  

The orchestra tonight released a thank-you video to their supporters. Under Covid constraints they played Haydn with just three performers, two of them women: principal