From the CSO: Esteban Batallán was the selected candidate after the final round of auditions for CSO principal trumpet in Chicago in June. As part

The home of Italian opera has put up a short tribute to Valentina Cortese, the film star who died today aged 96. A leading actor

From an interview with AFP: When Peter Gelb took over New York’s legendary Metropolitan Opera in 2006, one of his jobs was to organize a

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has made two appointments for September 2019: François López-Ferrer will be the Assistant Conductor for the CSO and May Festival. Wilbur

Tributes are pouring on for Aaron Rosand who died last night of pneumonia, aged 92. Stephen Waarts: ‘Thank you Mr. Rosand for your incredible influence

The most sought-after tenor on the opera stage marks a fresh milestone this morning. Having managed his ascent with immense patience, spending almost a decade

An Tianxu, the Chinese pianist who was derailed by an official screw-up in the Tchaikovsky final by a change of concerto, has been called in

We have been informed of the death last night of Aaron Rosand, one of the last lions of the American violin. He was 92 and

The American mega-soprano has quit Columbia Artists for  Adam Cavagnaro’s San Francisco-based Promethean Artists. Voigt aims to do less opera in the years ahead, more

The composer and journalist Rolf Urs Ringger died in Zurich on June 26. He supplemented a considerable compositional output with work as a reviewer and

We can’t decide whether to applaud New York promoter Andrew Ousley for his latest venture, or sue him for stealing our title. Death of Classical