From the press release: Dr Artur Szklener, Director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Warsaw (which runs the Competition) said: “For the first time in history we are

Nude Opera Star Turns Grindr Workout Advice Into a Business Don’t ever again complain about Slipped Disc. Here’s the lede: Six weeks before the premiere

So you’ll remember that Ildar Abdrazakov cancelled Chicago’s Don Giovanni and all other US dates ‘for family reasons’. Well, Evgeny Nikitin has just pulled out

The New York-based mezzo-soprano Mika Shigematsu has died in Osaka, Japan, of pancreatic cancer. Her husband Shintaro Kobayashi has posted this message: I am deeply

A Tel Aviv charity concert involving the Israel Philharmonic and popular artists has been called off after the charity’s head, Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Firer, said

The Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho has pulled out of Deutsche Oper Berlin’s Madama Butterfly this week. Nothing on her social media to say why.  

This is Birmingham’s Symphony Hall today, its front ripped out by bulldozers. photo: Graham Young / BirminghamLive The hall, opened by the Queen in June

The British soprano Eva Turner, who was in the Scala audience at the April 1926 world premiere of Turandot, sang the role at the Covent

The bass-baritone Egils Siliņš has taken over as director of the Latvian National Opera and Ballet from today. Siliņš, 57, has sung Wagner internationally for

The violinist, who gave an account in July of historic sexual abuse by her Curtis professor, has written to the head of the institute demanding

Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct his hometown Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal in Philadelphia for the first time on November 24. He has marked the