Elea Nick won first prize at the international Young Virtuoso competition in Sofia, Bulgaria, yesterday. She is a student of Zakhar Bron. Professor Bron was chair

BBC Radio 2 gave news today of the death of veteran broadcaster Brian Matthew, presenter of Sounds of the 60s. A while later, it corrected

Lawrence Brownlee has a son who’s on the spectrum. So he’s getting on his bike. If you’d like to help, here’s the link.

The singer, who is 73, announced today that he has lived with another man for 39 years. Just before the world forgot he’s still around.

The Russian-based Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis signed on today as chief conductor of the SWR radio symphony orchestra in Stuttgart, starting in 2018-19.   Currentzis,

The New York Times announces today that the American diva’s last Rosenkavalier at the Met on May 13 will also be her farewell to opera. Ms

The international podium is absolutely awash in Finns, but no Norwegian would (pace the Beatles) get to conduct the Vienna Opera. Until last night, that

John Kaboff was thrown off an American Airlines flight from Washington to Chicago after his cello, sitting in the paid-for seat beside him, was declared

He will conduct the opera for the first time at the Baden-Baden Festival. Like many who grew up on Grove’s Dictionary, he did not regard

Lukas Crepaz (r.), 35, is the festival’s new business manager, joining artistic director Markus Hinterhäuser and festival president Helga Rabl-Stadler.  

The company has released next season’s programme. It includes an opera, Cinderella, by the British child prodigy, Alma Deutscher. Full details: Prokofiev, The Gambler (4.