The 14 finalists have just been selected: Vlada Borovko, soprano, Russia, 29Rupert Enticknap, countertenor, UK, 30Davide Giusti, tenor, Italy, 30Leon Kim, baritone, South Korea, 30Ruslana

The Dutch Strauss-master screened last weekend’s Maastricht concert to 586 venues across the UK and Ireland. The box-office numbers are just in. Rieu made £1,447,086, more than

The National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, 115 young musicians, leaves today for a tour of three Latin American countries – Colombia,

The first review is online. It’s by Shirley Apthorp in the FT and it lays Barrie Kosky’s production concept succinctly on the line: A caricature

A musical instrument seller has been arrested in Tokyo for allegedly breaking into her ex-husband’s workshop in Nagoya and smashing 54 violins, worth $1 million,

Its founder Somtow Sucharitkul has issued this final warning: ‘Opera Siam faces its fourth and most serious existential crisis in 17 years. We are going to run

Barbara Blakeley, who married Zeppo Marx in 1959 and Frank Sinatra in 1976, has died in Rancho Mirage, California, at the age of 90. She

At Die Meistersinger in Bayreuth last night there was an outbreak of lusty booing for the soprano Anne Schwanewilms. Much in the production was controversial. Barrie

Claire Chase has joined Harvard as Practice. She has given more than 100 world premieres of new works for flute. Harvard has also recruited jazz

The Guardian has an obit for the heroic Kitty Lux, founder of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, which has the great distinction of playing both

This is Sarah Hughes on her way to play. Sarah is a composer, saxophonist and teacher. And this is what happened to her: I was