Pick of the Week

Phillipa Reive was today appointed Director, Creative Campus, Snape Maltings. Kate Wyatt was named Producer – Opera and Music Theatre. A new

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: This has to be the least expected record of the year – a

From my piece in the Spectator today: … And this is where the Chinese revolution comes close to home. Shanghai grads

From the London Times obituary: To some of his critics Hvorostovsky — with his silver locks, piercing features and air

We hear that seven seats in the strings of the internationally-boycotted Malaysian Philharmonic have been earmarked for ethnic Malays –

In a packed international schedule, our diarist Anthea Kreston squeezes in time to see students – and their mothers.  

A post-Brexit enticement from our good German friends: Ladies and Gentlemen, German surtitles for operas sung in other languages have

The Théâtre Paul Éluard of Bezons, Val-d’Oise, has called off a new ballet after the veteran choreographer Daniel Dobbels was accused

We have been informed that the artist Milein Cosman died earlier this week, at home in London, at the age

At the Berlin Philharmonie last night the singers Rolando Villazon and Ildar Abdrazakov came on stage just before 8pm to

The Salzburg university is fast becoming the laughing stock of cultural Europe as its latest attempt to appoint a rector