The death has been announced of Rosemary Kuhlmann, an American-born soprano who played a central role in the world premiere, shown live on NBC Television,

The sound engineer, bass player, musical organiser and co-founder of Coffee Cup Productions, the irrepressible Mark Tulloss, has died tragically of a heart attack. Every

Jonas Kaufmann is the cover boy of October’s Opera News, pegged to a new Sony album. Its editor-in-chief, F. Paul Driscoll, writes: ‘At fifty, singularly

The Dutch conductor leaves the London stage after leading the Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner’s 7th symphony at the BBC Proms last night. Haitink, 90, has

The electroacoustic genius Ivo Malec died last week. Pierre Schaeffer’s righthand assistant came from Zagreb to Paris in 1959, adding a Balkan lyricism to austere

The highly rated Joseph Kaiser has cancelled two operas at Teater an der Wien and one at Covent Garden. Kaiser, 41, offered no immediate confirmation