A wonderful town? It used to be. Today’s news is a blip. It will bounce back.  

The Göttinger Symphony Orchestra has picked former agent Alexander Busche as its managing director, starting next month. It has also added five more years to

We were sceptical about La Maestra, the women’s-only conducting contest. But the all-male list of selected candidates at Italy’s Arthur Nikisch Competition suggests equality still

An Easter Ring cycle planned for Chemnitz in April-May 2021 has been abandoned due to Covid. The coming year is looking increasingly bleak.  

It has been an open secret for months that Emmanuel Ceysson, the Met’s French harpist, was crossing America to join the LA Phil. That appointment

Helga Rabl-Stadler has received a further year’s extension as Festival President through to the end of 2021. She was the driving force behind this summer’s

The orchestra has scrapped the rest of its 20-21 season, as Covid rages on. President and CEO Deborah Borda said: ‘The cancellation of an entire

We reported earlier that all 100 musicians of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra have been sent to quarantine camp after one of their number tested

The composer and instrumentalist Jon Gibson died yesterday. He played in the world premieres of ‘In C,’ ‘Drumming’ and ‘Einstein on the Beach’ and was

We’re hearing cries of ‘foul!’ over a £100,000 Arts Council handout to Nevill Holt Opera in the Midlands. Nevill Holt was founded by Tory donor

The soprano Maria Guleghina went demonstrating in Luxembourg yeterday, calling for international recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh, which the Armenians call Artsakh. ‘Artsakh is historically Armenian sacred