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Just in: Leif Segerstam has died
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today…
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Opera
18 operagoers need medical treatment after lesbian Hindemith opera
Florentina Holzinger’s Stuttgart production of Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna…
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Orchestras
Jersey hires Joshua Bell
The violinist Joshua Bell has been named principal…
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Peter Gelb blames critic for Met flop
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Did Britain cheat Europe to build its best concert hall?
That’s the thesis of Terry Grimley’s new book…
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Two world premieres from the one the world forgot
After a recent flurry of activity about Mieczyslaw…
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Slippedisc editorial: An unedifying episode in the march to equal rights
Five days ago, Slippedisc and other media outlets…
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Sacked soprano is ‘hurt’ by Australian misunderstanding
Tamar Iveri, removed from next month’s Otello for…
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More praise dead than alive, Gerard Mortier wins the Diaghilev Prize
The award, founded in 2012, honours the executive…
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Conductor says sorry for calling board ‘a bunch of crooks’
He’s being sued by the orchestra president for…
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Iran’s supreme leader has an improving message for western music
The following messages appeared this morning on Ayatollah…
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‘Homophobic’ soprano loses second role
Hours after the Monnaie theatre in Brussels announced…
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LA’s surfing oboist is remembered on his beach
David Weiss, principal oboe of the Los Angeles…
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Does the Met have money to burn?
Latest campaign poster from the opera musicians.
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Brussels confirms sacking of ‘homophobic’ soprano
We have received confirmation from the intendant of…
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A Rattle baby is born
Our social secretary has just received this message…
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Klinghoffer: It’s not enough to be not anti-semitic
The Guardian published a thoughtful, slightly counter-intuitive op-ed…
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Bryn Terfel’s next role: it’s a fiddle…
He’s singing Tevye at Grange Park Opera next…
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San Diego rising with new DiDonato opera
Believe in the resurrection. San Diego Opera, recently…
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Singing upside down? That’s easy. Try the trapeze version.
Joanna Wallfisch, our surprise guest last weekend, is…
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Klinghoffer: An Israeli tenor laments the cancellation
We have received a reasoned, sensitive and gently…
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Opera house bans ‘homophobe’ soprano
La Monnaie Opera in Brussels has cancelled next…
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Cellist asks audience to play along. More than 100 respond.
The cellist Johannes Moser has a residency at…
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Thoughts of Chairman Lebrecht
Among this week’s media interviews, Classicaldarkarts wanted to…
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