We hear on the New York opera grapevine that Robert Rattray, Assistant General Manager, Artistic, at the Metropolitan Opera, is in hospital after suffering a stroke

Anastassiya Dranchuk has lived in Germany for 17 years. She has played for Chancellor Angela Merkel on state occasions.   But Anastassiya, 29, failed to

Timothy Walker, chief executive and artistic director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra which has struggled in recent years with tour decline, offers a counter-intuitive view

Heinz Jakob ‘Coco’ Schumann, a jazz guitarist who played underground in Berlin until the Nazis sent him to Terezin and Auschwitz, died in Berlin this

David Garrett has cancelled current engagements due to ‘an acute herniated disc’. He’s in pain. We wish him better. David tweets: “Dear Friends, I’m so incredibly

The Canadian soprano won classical vocal album last night at the Grammys, for Crazy Girl Crazy.   Other winners include Daniil Trifonov, Pat Kop, Jennifer Higdon

The French honour was awarded today to François-Xavier Roth, 46, Generalmusikdirektor in Cologne and last music director of the disbanded SWR symphony orchestra, both in

The Baltimore music director will become chief conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra from September 2019. The ORF is Vienna’s third-ranked orchestra, behind the Philharmonic