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La Bohème in Montpellier
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BBC Radio 3 scores record audience, Classic FM record low
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Breaking: Concertmaster is out in new LA Phil crisis
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Russian conductor contemplates gay-themed Onegin
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Alert at Lincoln Center as church threatens to picket Juilliard
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Death of an Oscar-winning composer, 72
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Over 25 years, he published 157 operas by 64 composers
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You can’t do it in 5 minutes: 25 crackpot facts about classical music
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Wieland Wagner’s Fricka has died, at 88
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The world’s biggest cello is 900 feet long
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The Met’s ash scatterer is dismayed by the furore
Roger Kaiser has gone to ground. He has…
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Pravda: Russian pianist was ‘terrorised’ in America
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New research: 2 in 3 musicians suffers from depression
Help Musicians UK has published the results of…
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Met Opera chorus mourns veteran member
Singers are sharing sad news of the death…
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Label raid: Sony snatch prized asset from Warner
Sony Classical are jubilant. They have signed Natalie…
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US orchestra awards 8 percent pay increase
While Fort Worth and Pittsburgh are on strike…
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Breakthrough: Youtube can now play in Germany
After years of being blocked by GEMA, the…
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BBC sells Proms to the Gulf
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US tenor starts online TV channel
In the expanding battle over image rights, Lawrence…
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Kuwait’s opera is opened by Bocelli
An arts complex, including the emirate’s first opera…
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Report: Acid attacker is back at work in the Bolshoi
From the ever-attentive Ismene Brown: Pavel Dmitrichenko, the…
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Just in: Pogorelich breaks record silence
It is eighteen years since the Croatian pianist…
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Breaking act: Berlin producer forms classical boy band
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