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Conductor waves white flag at Vienna Opera
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The man behind Pierre Boulez
I once offended the great man by deprecating…
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Extraordinary pit footage of Karajan’s last opera
Orchestra pit footage has turned up of Herbert…
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A bad day for Shostakovich
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Renée sings refugees
Fascinating new release coming up from the Emerson…
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Juan Diego Florez: My voice is changing
The king of the high Cs has acknowledged…
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Press fail (2): The BBC Prom that wasn’t doped
From a correspondent: I saw that in his…
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Press fail (1): Unofficial review of Cumberbatch as Hamlet
The Times and the Mail this morning broke…
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Just in: Stolen Strad turns up, 35 years later
This will go down forever as a quiz…
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Yoko Ono on Hiroshima Day
The artist brings home the enduring personal tragedies…
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Watch: Tenor does his best singing in the smallest room
‘This is where the best sound is,’ says…
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Get a life: Weary Royal Philharmonic records backup for Elvis hits
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a London band…
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Announcing Steve Jobs: the opera (who gets to play Glenn Gould?)
Santa Fe Opera has just announced an opera…
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Breaking: Outsider claims victory in Santander
We hear that the Spaniard Perez Floristán, 22,…
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Festival chaos as last-gasp Susanna flies in 6 months pregnant
The Edinburgh Festival’s production of The Marriage of…
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Orchestra boss emails new wife: I’m leaving the marriage
The extraordinary ascent of Toronto Symphony Orchestra chief…
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Breaking: New boss in Wales
We’ve been hearing murmurs of discontent coming from…
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Nurses to surgeons: Cut the music
A survey by the Journal of Advanced Nursing says…
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London singer needs help in pancreatic cancer fight
Louise Plowright, star of West End musicals Mamma…
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Met will stop blacking up Otello
Peter Gelb has told the Hyperallergic website: ‘We…
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Catastrophic fire at national instrument museum
Norway’s main museum for musical instruments, the Ringve…
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The beginning of the end for classical radio?
A new-tech listening model launches this morning in…
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Death of a Russian conductor
The Moscow conductor Anatoly Kremer has died at 82….
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Just in: New music ensemble loses founding members
Birmingham’s Contemporary Music Group, established in the Simon…
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