Esa-Pekka Salonen is the first conductor to sign onto a scheme to shame the Dutch goverment into softening its culture cuts. Salonen and the Philharmonia

The American soprano Patricia Racette was cast as Madama Butterfly in tomorrow’s performance at Covent Garden, but she fell sick. The conductor, Andris Nelsons, would

This time it’s Ecuador. Apparently, they have been reading about the shenanigans in Brazil and are telling the musicians is Guayaquil to re-audition for their

I am still waiting to read an obituary of Professor Raphael Loewe that tells the world how he won the Military Cross in Italy during