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Tenor stops mid-concert in Birmingham to stop phone snappers
The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham…
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Breaking: Yannick takes another job
He is already music director of the Metropolitan…
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Simon Rattle: ‘I’ve got the only homeless top orchestra’
The conductor continues his agitation for a new…
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Just in: Kirill cancels Vienna Phil
The Berlin Philharmonic chief conductor Kirill Petrenko has…
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Wales change chorus master
press release: Welsh National Opera appoint…
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Why are mezzos nicer than sopranos?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that cellists…
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Ivan Fischer: ‘Symphony orchestras have only a few decades left’
He tells Richard Morrison in The Times: ‘Symphony…
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Berlin horn to blow Lucerne first
While the Viennese slave away at Salzburg, Berlin…
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Opera costume designer dies, aged 41
Very sad news. Melissa Schlachtmeyer, who designed costumes…
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Andris Nelsons: I’m not interested in Berlin
The incoming Boston Symphony conductor has made a…
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The battling mezzo suffers exhaustion collapse
Elisabeth Kulman, founder of ‘Art But Fair’ and…
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Lauren Bacall sings
In memoriam. Twice in films: And, less famously,…
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Would Scottish orchestras survive independence?
The Scottish National Party say yes (but they…
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Norwegians would. Why can’t we?
A Norwegian duo, Nico and Vinz, are top of…
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Guitarist brings good record news. Don’t even ask the bad…
Milos Karadaglic has the best-selling classical album in…
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Young violinist escapes California road disaster
This just in from the rising crossover violinist,…
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A new Leonard Cohen? I’m wrestling with the old…
In the thick of writing a 2,000-word analysis…
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‘Heifetz had a very high wrist’
Laurie Niles has conducted one of her extraordinarily…
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A pianist amidst Palestinian ruins
This is the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmuk…
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Australian violinist ‘was a Soviet spy’
Declassified papers of a KGB defector have named Steve…
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Conservatoire creator dies, aged 101
Dame Katherine Ollerenshaw, a former lord mayor of…
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Heritage alert: Maria Callas legacy is being eaten by rats
Shocking scenes from the Theatre Museum in Athens,…
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Sick opera pic of the week
This is Flemish Opera’s placard for Strauss’s…
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The silken ladder that Peter Gelb ascended
Maxim Gershunoff, the veteran New York manager and…
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