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Sviatoslav Richter: I do not like myself
A chilling late reflection from the most compelling…
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Kirill Petrenko restores swagger to La Scala
We’re hearing breath-stopping accounts of the Rosenkavalier revival…
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Cliff Richard, 84, plans Australia and UK tours
The archetype British popster has enviable stamina. For…
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Italy goes to Manchester
Over 40 Italian music organisations are showcasing the…
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Sir Peter Hall: ‘I can read a score, up to Verdi’
The great director, whose death was announced today,…
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Four Berlin festivals get lots more money
The International Literature Festival will get an extra…
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English festival seeks new boss
Meurig Bowen has stepped down from the Cheltenham…
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Sony grabs rights to Maria Callas doc
This will not please Warner, which owns the…
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New York Times loses its culture editor
Danielle Mattoon, appointed to the senior position with…
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A top Russian conductor, imitating Putin, strips off
Recognise him? This is Vladmir Spivakov, filmed on…
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A golden age opera conductor has died, aged 94
We have been informed of the death of Siegfried…
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God bless, Peter Hall
The death has been announced of the great…
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Oh, for fff’s sake: ‘An opera made of orgasms’
This is a promo by Stockholm’s Folkoperan (Volksoper)…
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Putin grants state honour to Dmitri Hvorostovsky
The Russian president has awarded the great baritone…
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Belgian conductor gets French orchestra
David Reiland, formerly with the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra,…
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Mirga’s orchestra receives huge anonymous gift
press release: The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is…
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Chicago snatches Houston Symphony’s fundraiser
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has hired David Chambers…
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Death of a leading St Petersburg piano professor
The funeral took place today of Nina Seregina,…
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Britain bans Syrian refugee from chamber music festival
Message from the Oxford Chamber Music Festival: Ibrahim…
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UPDATE: Tear-gas aftermath at Frankfurt airport
The attack took place around the Terminal 1…
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Anyone remember andante.com?
Another memory provoked by the death of Pierre…
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Recovering the silenced Soviet composers
The Lebrecht Album of the Week featured lost…
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They were playing opera in Shanghai two centuries before Christ
From the Shanghai Daily: The Gushan Pavilion at…
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Leipzigers urge mayor to stop Mongolian musician’s deportation
More than 2,000 people have signed a petition…
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