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Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
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San Antonio is sinking
The SA Philharmonic has cancelled the rest of…
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Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
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Death of French maestro, 68
Message received: The Forum Voix Etouffées regrets to…
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New York Times loses its best critic
It was announced this morning that the excellent…
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See opera in Italy for 2 Euros
From the Italian news agency, ANSA: Young people…
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Muti flies out Shostakovich’s widow
Irina Shostakovich, the composer’s widow, will attend tonight’s…
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Ennio Morricone quits composing
The veteran film composer, who turns 90 in…
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Concertmaster’s lawyer dismisses oboist’s complaint as nonsense
A lawyer for the Baltimore Symphony concertmaster Jonathan…
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Kushnir steers Spivakov prize to his pupil
The winner of the Vladimir Spivakov international competition…
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London concertmaster plays his last
Some 38 years after he joined the London…
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Want to play Tchaikovsky? Break some rules
From our diarist Anthea Kreston: We were working…
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Paris blues: Les Huguenots loses a second star
It’s the first showing of Meyerbeer’s opera in…
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Who’s New York’s oboe on Jaap’s opening night?
We hear that Sherry Sylar, associate principal oboe,…
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Sicklist: Bayreuth’s master tenor is out
Klaus Florian Vogt, who sang Walther von Stolzing in…
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US music director is ousted in Germany
The months-long dispute between Cottbus State Theater and its…
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Just in: UK Musicians Union calls for post-Brexit visa
Message received: The Musicians’ Union (MU) is calling…
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Sicklist: Super-young Berlin stand-in gets the call again
Six months ago Thomas Guggeis, 24, made headlines…
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This new opera comes with its own jewellery line
Canada keenly awaits Rufus Wainwright’s new opera on…
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The unearthed Rachmaninov recording – any good?
We were the first to report six weeks ago…
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Why Boston missed the bus on its European tour
It is now widely known that the Boston…
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Anna Netrebko goes brownface in Met’s Aida
The soprano has posted pictures from the general…
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Russian and Belgian are named as Gatti replacements
The Concertgebouw has named Dima Slobodeniouk and Philippe Herreweghe to replace their…
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Detroit mourns its opera founder
David DiChiera, founder of Michigan Opera Theatre, has…
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