The pianist Jon Kimura Parker reminds us that today is his mother-in-law’s 100th birthday. She is the celebrated Laila Storch, first woman oboe student of

The bass-baritone Antoine Hodge, whose death from Covid we reported a week ago, was just 38 years old according to a New York Times obituary

This is the US national anthem that opened Conservative Political Action Conference 2021. Just before Donald Trump turns up for his first major event since

The Singapore conductor Chiya Amos had a bright start to his career in St Petersburg. Now he’s doing food deliveries back home. Amos, 30, explains

The death has been announced of the busy Russian-Israeli violinist Yuval Waldman. His son said the cause was heart disease, allied to Covid-19. Born to

The Baltimore oboist Leslie Starr has died of a sudden heart attack at 70. Leslie was principal oboe of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra nad played

The Mariinsky has cancelled performances in Irkutsk this weekend after its leader Valery Gergiev suffered an unspecified injury. Gergiev’s pal, the pianist Denis Matsuev, writes

The incoming intendant of Oper Leipzig, Tobias Wolff, wants nothing to do with the ancien regime. He has named the undervalued Kapellmeister Christoph Gedschold as

Opera de Monte-Carlo has named the Italian mezzo as its new artistic director from 2023. Jean-Louis Grinda, director of Opera de Monte-Carlo, says he is

This week’s streamed operas from Vienna: Montag, 1. März 2021, 19.00 Uhr Georges Bizet CARMEN (Vorstellung vom 21. Februar 2021) Opéra comique in vier Akten Musikalische