The Festival d’opéra baroque et romantique at Beaune has responded to Sacha Hatala’s claims of pitifully low pay. They say the contralto was offered 800

The Iranian pianist Arsha Kaviani, feeling bored, has a go at Leopold Godowsky’s ferocious arrangement of Chopin’s revolutionary study. Imagine what he can get up to

This new version for two melodicas is being circulated by Jamie Bernstein, the composer’s daughter. It’s weirdly effective in an ear-wormish kind of way.

The swing doors are working overtime in Salzburg. Two weeks after the abrupt departure of the last rector, who didn’t even bother to start work,

Daniel Lipton, 76, has resigned as artistic director of Opera Tampa, effective immediately. He succeeded Anton Coppola in 2012, when Coppola was 95. Lipton, who

If you’ve had a contract in the post to play with the Lucerne Festival Strings, be careful: it may be fake. Here’s the Festival’s statement:

Th Chilean music director of the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, Francisco Rettig, has walked out, citing ‘mistreatment and unpaid debts’ by the Ministry of Culture.

We hear increasing concerns about the state of the AFM pension fund that most US freelancers pay into. Last week, a group of members filed

Katharina Wagner has let it be known that next year’s new Lohengrin production (succeeding the one with the rats) will feature Robert Alagna as the