Earlier today, we reported that the main opera house in Chile had sacked 13.5 percent of the workforce. The Municipal Theatre of Santiago has responded

The Baltimore Symphony, which has locked out its musicians, today cancelled its September gala. The event was previously billed as follows: Recipients are invited to

In 1989, an Englishman called Hugh Southern was appointed general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. He was generally thought to be cordial and capable, but

An interesting box-office statistic from Munich: Salome, starring Marlis Petersen and conducted by Kirill Petrenko, is heavily outselling Otello – with Jonas Kaufmann and Anja

Antonio Pappano, the most constant of music directors, has been in charge at Covent Garden since 2002 and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

The influential experimentalist Ben Johnston – described by our friend John Rockwell as ‘one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer’ –

The festival announced months ago that it would be putting on concert performances of Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten with – fanfare – Nina Stemme,

We hear from distressed musicians at the Municipal Theatre in Santiago, Chile, that 59 people were sacked last week in all departments due to a

Opposite my hotel in the French Concession, I see an impressive structure going up at the back of the Shanghai Conservatoire of Music. It turns

Word is fluttering around the Glyndebourne hedgerows that the LPO is ready to announce its next music director, successor to Vladimir Jurowski after 12 eventful