We’ve just caught up with this 2015 video by three cellists of the Vienna Philharmonic and two freelance friends – all playing on one cell0. They’re saving up to buy another one, every little click helps.

Franco Oppo, a Darmstadt disciple who taught all his life at Cagliari, has died at 80.

Fascinated by aleatory possibilities, he wrote a number of concertos and sonatas, mostly involving piano.

The Spanish singer and opera director turns 75 on Thursday. This weekend, he was singing in Dublin.

Still performing baritone roles, Domingo is also artistic director of Los Angeles Opera.

He has no plans to retire. ‘I have the soul of a beginner,’ he tells an Austrian newspaper.

The Mariinsky music director has completed his annexation of the Primorsky Opera, on Russia’s Pacific Coast.

The chief conductor at Primorsky will be Pavel Smelkov. Principal guest conductor is Vladislav Karklin. Both are Mariinsky regulars.

The artistic director is Larissa Diadkova, a former Mariinsky cast member.

The empire branches out.