We have been informed of the death at his home today of Sir John Manduell, programme director of the Cheltenham Music Festival for 25 years

Hamburg’s concert hall is a hit. The numbers don’t lie. Since November 4, 2016 the hall has averaged 11,000 daily visitors, it was announced today.

The former head of classics at Universal Music Group, now a senior adviser, has agreed to be co-curator of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the

NBC has reported the death of the rock and roll trailblazer. A New Orleans musician of French Creole descent, he cut his first recording –

The Dutch violinist and waltz king has begun action to fight a court ruling that fined him 116,000 Euros for bringing children on stage after the

Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, has declared Eastern Europe ‘a migrant free zone’. On Sunday, Ivan Fischer and members of his Budapest Festival Orchestra

We learn from Forum Opera that the fine mezzo-soprano Luciana d’Intino, 58, has decided to stop singing. She was due to sing in the Bastille’s Ballo in

A sign of the times? Two supporters of San Luis Obispo Opera withdrew their patronage after a performance of Madam Butterfly: We recently attended Opera

Message received:     The Dutch National Opera Studio is a new young artists programme in The Netherlands, which will be launched in Amsterdam in

The composer James MacMillan feels an empathy with others in his vocation who cannot stay off the pitch. Did you know, for instance, that Edward