From the new Lebrecht Album of the Week: Most musicians go through life trying to avoid trouble, especially of the political kind. Gabriela Montero is

The Vienna State Opera has issued this statement of its position: With regard to the allegations of sexual impropriety on the part of Plácido Domingo

The Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecień, a regular canceller this year, has withdrawn from singing Malatesta in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in October ‘due to personal reasons’.

We hear that the orchestra has implored the Italian principal flute Silvia Careddu, who was controversially refused tenure in January, to continue playing on its

The musicologist Marina Frolova-Walker has found a gloriously dismissive 1939 review of Shostakovich’s fifth symphony by a self-admiring London critic with a distinctly Brexit mindset.

There have been a few, very few, at the head of an opera house and some have not lasted very long. Mary Allen at Covent

The orchestra has named the first participants in its new academy. There are just 3 Austrians, 2 women. Hannah Cho, violin, USA Andraz Golob, clarinet,

Sam Burstin is organising an ambitious Mahler 2 this Sunday 1st September at Blackheath Halls, on behalf of his friend, the singer Stephen Kennedy, and