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Steven Isserlis: ‘There’s a lot of me, me, me playing which I cannot stand’
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Gustavo Dudamel: Why I quit Paris Opera
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How Brexit is punishing orchestras
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New Zealand Opera chief, RIP
The American conductor Raymond Dobbs Franks has died…
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Munich has to recast Hamlet
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Brahms receives a tattoo
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Yunchan Lim finds transcendence
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A refreshingly old-fashioned launch
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Young German conductor gets signed
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Canterbury honours Chi-chi
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The next Tosca?
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Tributes flood in for great British tenor
The death of Graham Clark has brought fulsome…
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Opera
Munich replaces fired chorus chief
Bavarian State Opera has chosen Christoph Heil from…
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Israel Phil to make diplomatic debut in Turkey
Turkish media are reporting that the Israel Philharmonic…
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Orchestras
Gatti signs on
The Italian conductor Daniele Gatti, fired by the…
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RIP
Death of a great British tenor
We have been informed of the passing just…
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Opera
Opera Tonight – Do mermaids have sex?
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Orchestras
Montenegro signs a music director
One of Europe’s smallest nations has chosen Marc…
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