The overnights are in and there are claims of a world record. It appears that 2.5 million Italians watched the live relay of the original

Lebrecht Album of the Year: Most critics pick their album of the year from the ones they reviewed over the past 52 weeks. This year,

A painting given to the Vienna Philharmonic in 1940 by Romain Loos, a senior Gestapo official in France, is finally to be restored to its

Conductor Paul Daniel does it his way, by way of a Bordeaux encore.

Our diarist Anthea Kreston of the Artemis Quartet, on the painful choices a player has to make:     In a heavy touring schedule, but

The well-travelled cellist will run his own education venture in Guangzhou, starting next month. Can’t work out why he’s sitting on a dead shark.  

The German conductor has been appointed Carl Maria von Weber Visiting Professor of Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, starting next month. RAM Principal

Dmitri Hvorostovsky has withdrawn from all opera engagements ‘for the foreseeable future’. Mariusz Kwiecien and Peter Mattei will sing Onegin at the Met in spring

At the opening of the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin yesterday: ‘I lived for 15 years in London where none of the politicians had much interest

The American soprano will sing in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical in Basle next week. Full casting here. With extra moves from Basle Ballet. London will