The Manchester Camerata has promoted Caroline Pether to leader. Caroline, who is also leader of the chamber orchestra Sinfonia Cymru, featured recently in a film

It’s the first anniversary of the death of the intensely private Hungarian pianis Marta Kurtag, playing here as she did every day with her husband,

The violinist, accepting an OpusKlassik award: ‘Many of my colleagues are not just without work, they are on the poverty line. And it’s not just

The Lithuanian bass Vaclovas Daunoras, who sang ten straight years at the Metropolitan Opera after making his debut there in 1995, has died at the

The great Hungarian composer György Kurtág plays a Mozart adagio in memory of his beloved wife Marta, who died a year ago this weekend. Kurtág

Just in: Following the positive outcome of the Covid-19 test of one of the members of Aida’s singing company, Teatro alla Scala has arranged a

The Times’ music critic Richard Morrison reviewed Covent Garden’s reopening this weekend from a seat at home. ‘With so few seats available…,’ he begins, before

The Metropolitan Opera’s publicity department has planted a story in the New York Post about two veteran subscribers, Marion Chalat and Carolyn Starry, who have

On April 4, 1787, hearing that his father Leopold was seriously ill, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a bizarre farewell letter to his father, full of

The German conductor Johanna Malangré has been named music director of the Orchestre national de Picardie, based at Amiens in france. Malangré, 31, succeeds the

…. and prove that the Philistines were almost certainly Canadian…