We hear from the National Symphony in Washington DC that four more players have joined the orchestra – violinists Marina Aikawa, Peiming Lin and Derek

With the last of 270,584 tickets sold, this summer’s Salzburg Festival clocked up 97% capacity, much the same as last season. Revenues, at 31.2 million

The archetypal American in Paris, Nancy arrived from Cleveland via New York as a nightclub dancer in the 1950s. She began singing ye-ye when the

Alexander Steinbeis is stepping down after 13 years as managing director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Steinbeis, 45, will leave a year from now, of

… and no Spanish writer condemns him. The world has gone binary: you are either anti-Domingo or pro. Writers in the land of the free

Nico Fleury has been confirmed as principal horn of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The Frenchman was formerly principal of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Up north,

The falling out between Christian Thielemann and the Salzburg Easter Festival chief Nikolaus Bachler is likely to cost his Dresden Staatskapelle its valuable slot. The

Our violin diarist Anthea Kreston is about to say goodbye to Berlin: “Life might be difficult for a while, but I would tough it out

We reported last month on the completion of a new opera house at the Shanghai Conservatoire. The city is now having another one built in