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Just in: Leif Segerstam has died
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today…
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Piano legend turns 90
Many happy returns to Abdullah Ibrahim, South Africa’s…
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18 operagoers need medical treatment after lesbian Hindemith opera
Florentina Holzinger’s Stuttgart production of Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna…
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Peter Gelb blames critic for Met flop
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Crime wave hits London touring companies
Pop-Up Opera has suffered the loss of its…
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German churches bend the knee to GEMA
The Roman Catholic Church has caved in to…
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Martha Argerich, 77 today, joins the three monkeys
Thanks to Iddo Bar-Shai, and happy birthday, Martha!
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You can start calling him Maestro Dear
Finnegan Downie Dear, music director of Shadwell Opera,…
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Founder of two US orchestras dies at 98
The Hungarian-born conductor and composer Frederic Balazs has passed away…
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London snares star flute
The Royal Academy of Music has engaged Denis Bouriakov…
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Russians develop robot composer
The state-controlled Ria-Novosti agency reports a breakthrough in ‘human-level…
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Death of a celebrated Carmen, 95
ForumOpera reports the death of the Corsican mezzo Isabelle…
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Butterfly director: This opera is repulsive
Annilese Miskimmon, who is staging Madama Butterfly at…
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Maestro move: A Taiwanese is Regensburg’s new MD
Chin-Chao Lin has been named Generalmusikdirektor at Theater…
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Vienna Philharmonic makes Mariss Jansons an honorary member
Message received: Vienna – Maestro Mariss Jansons has…
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Sicklist: Florez is down. Will he make the World Cup?
Juan Diego Flórez has pulled out of Vienna’s…
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Death of a distinguished German conductor, 87
The death has been reported of Hanns-Martin Schneidt, successor…
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BBC sells off Maida Vale at the worst possible time
Tony Hall’s decision today to sell off the…
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On a gay couple’s wedding cake and Bach’s antisemitism
Some reflections from period ensemble maestro Joel Cohen:…
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Why is Walter Benjamin starring in another opera?
The German-Jewish philologist and philosopher who committed suicide…
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Many musicians are destroyed by success, but no one is destroyed by failure
This piece of pre-audition advice by Brinton Smith,…
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Just in: Dallas names a sought-after music director
The next chief of the Dallas Symphony, following…
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You can now study hip-hop at Oxford
Further to our long-running discussion about diversification in music…
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The most played concerto by a Finnish composer is…
…. obviously, Sibelius’s violin concerto. But what’s the…
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