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Sviatoslav Richter: I do not like myself
A chilling late reflection from the most compelling…
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The soloist who learned to fly
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Kirill Petrenko restores swagger to La Scala
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Bad Boy loses his ball bearings
This is Serge Polunin, heartthrob of the ballet…
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ENO loses its Ramfis
Tweet from the Coli: We’re sorry to…
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Strict new orders for journalists attending the opera house
The Berlin Staatsoper has sent out a very…
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What Rafa Nadal named his yacht
Beethoven, apparently. He goes to symphony concerts, as…
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On Shostakovich’s birthday, a long-lost viola work is found
Archivists in Moscow are aglow at the discovery,…
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Death of a non-musical Casadesus
The actor Gisèle Casadesus, member of the Comédie Francaise…
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English National Opera – a job well done?
The chorus of praise that has greeted Cressida…
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A sex charge simmers in a New York school of music
A firm of New York lawyers are pleading…
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Glenn Gould receives a message from outer space
The Canadian pianist would have been 85 today….
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Hamburg marks election with music by Merkel and Schulz
Election day services at Hamburg’s St. Michaeliskirche contained music…
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The Don’s granddaughter gets an agent
The Australian soprano Greta Bradman, granddaughter of the great…
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It’s Royal Brum from now
The Birmingham Conservatoire has been granted a Royal…
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Georgia mourns a formidable Salome, dead at 77
Opera Nostalgia reports the death of Tsisana Tatishvili, a…
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Opera Australia will be fined unless it cuts foreign talent
The federal government has put the national opera…
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Leonard Slatkin lets rip at Tommasini and pals
In his refreshingly candid new book, Leading Tones…
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How music directors lost their powers
In this week’s Spectator, I write about the…
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Major US newspaper loses its trusted arts writer
Janelle Gelfand left the Cincinnati Enquirer last week…
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Glenn Gould would have been 85 tomorrow
If one thing is certain it is that…
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Death of an enterprising concertmaster
The National Orchestra of Spain has announced the…
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‘I’ll smash your violins if you don’t pay maintenance’
The trial has opened at Nagoya District Court of…
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