Hours after received the Bavarian State Opera’s Mesitersinger medal, Jonas Kaufmann pulled out of the company’s festival production of Otello tomorrow night. He has an

Karen Palacio played principal clarinet at the National Philharmonic Orchestra for three months before being offered a contract, subject to a formal audition. Soon after,

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:   …  the Czech conductor Jakob Hrusa has restored something of the original sonority, allowing the brass to

The Russian-American conductor Mikhail Agrest, a staffer at the Mariinsky since 2001, has been appointed music director of Stuttgart Ballet. He succeeds Jeffrey Tuggle, who

The conductor Alain Antinoglu has made the bold decision to include in the Bastille Day concert at the Eiffel Tower a section from Halévy’s opera

Meet Chloe Flower, tomorrow’s classic. Juilliard trained, she is now 33 and doing her own thing.   Sarah Thwaites, Label Head UK, Sony Music Masterworks

The violin pedagogue Edward Wulfson has given a combative interview to the Russian journalist Marina Arshinova. In it, he asserts that there are only two