Eager to impress the Arts Council with its outreach credentials (and burdened with rows of empty seats), ENO has announced a free-ticket offer for under-18s at

This is first performance of a new concerto for double bass and orchestra, The Heart Has No Borders, commissioned by the incomparable Gary Karr. The

Just in from Intermusica’s Stephen Lumsden, who bravely goes where others have gone before: Intermusica Founder and Managing Director Stephen Lumsden has announced that one of

The death is reported of  Sylvia Geszty, a Hungarian soprano who was East Berlin’s go-to Queen of the Night in the late 1960s. She went west

The Minister of Culture of the Perm Region, Vyacheslav Torchinsky, has forbidden the Perm Opera and Ballet from using public funds to perform Alban Berg’s

Adam Cavagnaro’s Promethean Artists Agency, which launched today, is offering clients the services of a specialist fitness trainer and a styling consultant. So everyone turns up

Glyndebourn need a chorusmaster. The last one departed abruptly and without a word of explanation. Apply here. The Singapore Symphony is looking for a concertmaster. They

The NDR Radiophilharmonie has confirmed Catherine Myerscough‘s tenure after an eight-month trial. Catherine went to Germany with a Cambridge degree to study violin. Her first teacher

A documentary on Alondra de la Parra premieres next month in Berlin. She’s going places. Der Dokumentarfilm “La Maestra” begleitet Alondra de la Parra auf

The social activist Vijay Gupta, 31, has decided to leave the front desk of the Los Angeles Philharmonic violins to concentrate on his external causes. Gupta

The veteran, widely-read critic Conrad L Osborne is convinced he heard electronic boosting in Il trittico last week, and in Marnie before that: For my