Pick of the Week

A review of two releases in the American Record Guide by its owner and editor, Donald Vroon, caught the eye

The Cleveland music director has pulled out of a Berlin production of Magic Flute, requiring a knee operation. The Staatsoper

News is spreading of the death of Lynton Black, a popular figure at Covent Garden and many UK stages. He

Musicians in the Orchestre National de France were asked by their management if they agreed to have Charles Dutoit come

The Polish tenor will sing Cavaradossi for the first time in his life next week at the Vienna State Opera.

It has been an open secret in what’s left of the record business that Decca and Deutsche Grammophon were mud-wrestling

We have been informed of the death of John Edney, hugely popular trombone at Covent Garden in the Solti era