From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: … I’m inclined to think that Mendelssohn, in common with today’s air-miles musicians, loses much of himself on

We hear that Shanghai Symphony Orchestra has cancelled a planned concert this Sunday in Hong Kong. Musicians were informed today of the cancellation.

Angry public reponses to the casting of Matthew Stump as Leporello have prompted Michigan Opera Theater to drop him within 24 hours. MOT says: Michigan

Brazilian musicians are mourning the passing of André Midani, the Syrian-born executive behind the bossa nova boom. Starting out with Decca in France, he revitalised

The entrepreneurial Dutch violinist read in his morning paper that a thief had stolen the truck containing the instruments of an orchestra of musicians with

The Moscow-based Armenian tenor Arsen Soghomonyan has ‘withdrawn from singing the role of Don José in Carmen on 16 and 20 July for personal reasons’.

In what appears to be a significant evolutionary advance for the struggling orchestral sector, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has joined with Shireland Collegiate

The international pianist Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara has been arrested in Catania for attempted extortion against an alleged former lover. It is reported that he was

The venerable UK music publisher Boosey & Hawkes is to be merged with the Hamburg-based Russian music specialist Sikorski, home to the modern Russians Shostakovich,

The Chicago Symphony violist Max Raimi has allowed us to publish this recollection of a remarkable conversation with the great conductor, whose retirement was announced