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Just in: Leif Segerstam has died
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today…
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18 operagoers need medical treatment after lesbian Hindemith opera
Florentina Holzinger’s Stuttgart production of Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna…
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Jersey hires Joshua Bell
The violinist Joshua Bell has been named principal…
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Peter Gelb blames critic for Met flop
Page 6 in the NY Post – not…
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Strad fail: Sotheby’s cannot sell $45 million ex-Amadeus viola
After weeks of almost unprecendented hype, London dealers Ingles…
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US jazz bassist has bow seized over ivory concerns
Arriving in Saskatoon, Canada for a concert, Christian McBride…
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Just in: Police are called as Met Opera suffers spray-paint attack
Slogans were sprayed on the walls of the…
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Madness: Bob Dylan songsheet sells for $2 million
This. At Sotheby’s. Mad.
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Dallas Opera fills artistic post
Ian Derrer is to be artistic administrator, alongshide…
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When did Mozart write the Canadian national anthem?
Picture the scene. A sun-kissed morning in Vienna,…
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Shocking tragedy: Artist couple blown up in studio explosion
The kinetic artist and musician Norman Perryman reports:…
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Death of a composer’s friend
The violinist Janet Packer died at the weekend,…
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To win this piano competition, you need elbows … and feet
This is a performance of the Aaron Jay…
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UK string quartet enters US Hot 100
Clean Bandit, the Cambridge string quartet that became…
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Sudden death of French opera writer
Monique Barichella has died after a very short…
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A Goethe Medal for Gerard Mortier and Robert Wilson
The late opera and festival chief is being…
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A message from Claudio Abbado’s family
The maestro would have been 81 tomorrow. His…
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Klinghoffer: The soloist speaks
Manuela Hoelterhoff has a revealing interview with Sheila…
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‘I’m the conductor, and I’m filming you all’
The silly season is clicking in. By way…
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Vienna Phil at centre of Sarajevo commemoration
The shot that shocked the world on June…
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A critic, asleep at the opera
We’ve received two reports that a well-known newspaper…
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Sydney Opera House bans Islamist speech
An inflammatory speech by Uthman Bader, a justifier…
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The man who saw 1,000 operas
Merkur has a lovely piece this morning about…
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German President sponsors national Dvorak Experiment
The president of the federal republic, Joachim Gauck,…
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