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Chicago names new maestro
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Scotland hires anti-Israel pianist
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NY violinist with two broken wrists needs your help
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Boston’s new baton quits two agencies
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Anxiety over English countryhouse opera
We’re hearing nervous rumours that Nevill Holt opera…
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PR coup of the year: Keys jangle at Eurostar terminal
Hordes of snappers were gathering at St Pancras…
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Opera
Yoncheva cancels Scala
Message from the diva: To all who have…
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Guess what? Another strike at Paris Opéra
Last weekend, the machinists shut down Nutcracker. Next…
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Peter Gelb: The 3x billionaires are no longer interested in the arts
In an interview with the German gadfly Axel…
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Opera
New chief at troubled Minnesota Opera
The company, which has experienced turbulence and financial…
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Nice to have a hometown chief
The Mayor of Nice has upgraded Lionel Bringuier…
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Opera
The Met can’t get its new Carmen on stage
We hear there’s trouble backstage at the Metropolitan…
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Yannick skips Carnegie Hall for a film tour
The Met’s music director was due to appear…
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RIP
Death of Hungary’s foremost concertmaster
The death has been conveyed of János Rolla,…
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Orchestras
Detroit retains maestro to the 30s
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has handed a contract…
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Album Of The Week
My Record of the Year? I have a few
From the Lebrecht Album of the Year: ……
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Orchestras
New Covent Garden chief clings to his other jobs
The Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, who becomes music…
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Opera
An opera about a Jewess
The most famous exemplar is Halevy’s La Juive….
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RIP
An unsung Covent Garden pioneer has quietly passed away
In 1983, a music teacher called Pauline Tambling…
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Orchestras
Dear Alma, My orchestra friends are plotting against me
From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I have…
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Orchestras
Rude Dane destroys Mahler’s 9th
A performance of Mahler’s ninth symphony last night…
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Opera legend in failed suicide attempt
Friends of the opera producer Matthew Epstein reported…
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Orchestras
Music director sues for unfair dismissal
Rosemary Thompson, who was fired last week after…
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Hassid would have been 100
Two dates are given for the birth of…
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