The artist has cancelled forthcoming dates in Italy due to unspecified ‘last minute’ health problems. He has dropped out of singing at the Donizetti Opera

Check in at 5:22 on this performance and hear the seeds of a symphony written 80 years later. 

The jazz virtuoso Irvin Mayfield has pleaded guilty to defrauding New Orleans Public Library Foundation of $1.3 million to buy a trumpet, pay himself a

The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania has overturned an Ethics Commission decision which led to the 2017 dismissal of Gintautas Kėvišas as head of Lithuanian

Katy Clark is leaving Brooklyn Academy of Music after five years ‘upon accepting another opportunity’. (Why so coy?)   It just shows there’s life after

The Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen will celebrate his 60th birthday later this month with a Helsinki concert in memory of the late British composer Oliver

St. Petersburg Opera is mourning its tenor Sam Hall, co-star of last year’s Madam Butterfly. Zoya Gramagin was Hall’s co-star …. “He was the best

Members of the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra have been telling NBC-TV how they are coping through Covid without pay. They have not received a cent from

The long-silent synthesiser virtuoso, 81 this week, has raised objections to an unauthorised biography published by the Oxford University Press. This summer, an 80-year-old synthesiser

The British UK contemporary music group Riot Ensemble has netted 75,000 Euros as one two inaugural recipients of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation’s Ensemble

HarrisonParrott, perhaps the only agency to grow during Covid, has created a live-streaming and digital content platform in a joint enterprise with eMusic Live. First