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Just in: Leif Segerstam has died
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today…
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Piano legend turns 90
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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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Peter Gelb blames critic for Met flop
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Valery Gergiev to Munich: ‘Please can we keep talking?’
The incoming Munich Philharmonic conductor has published an…
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Another string quartet in the Beatles?
Everyone knows how George Martin recuited an ad…
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Barihunk climbs Kilimanjaro to help aged musicians
Gerald Finley – the Don Giovanni de nos…
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Michelle Obama hosts music education event. Strictly no classical
The First Lady is participating in something called Turnaround…
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Double Brit debut tomorrow at the New York Phil
Nicola Benedetti has been whisked in to replace…
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Maestro’s daughter is runner-up in classical talent contest
This is Nora Fischer, soprano daughter of the…
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San Diego Opera confirms new season
Just three operas – Bohème, Don Giovanni and…
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Slipped Disc editorial: Fat should not be an issue in opera
Weasel words have been used by five male,…
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Does your phone interfere with flight electronics?
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Organ swap at English cathedrals
Charles Harrison, Assistant Director of Music at Lincoln Cathedral…
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Latvian tenor wins Jussi Björling prize
His name is Aleksandrs Antonenko and the scholarship is…
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Alice Coote: An open letter to opera critics
The mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, who sings leading roles…
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Singers in uproar over critical body insults at Glyndebourne
Andrew Clark in the FT refers to a…
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Video: A suite for 12 pianists, on one piano
This is Monti’s famous Czardas, transcribed for the…
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Australia faces $87 million arts cuts
A host of grass-roots initiatives, many of them…
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Honouring Kurt Masur
The ailing conductor, stricken with Parkinson’s Disease, will…
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Nobel Prize committee names its conductor
They have chosen the most important functionary at…
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Composer returns to Salzburg, off-season
Kaaija Saariaho’s second opera, L’amour de loin, had…
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Not even for a fistful of dollars
Ennio Morricone, composer laureate of the spaghetti western,…
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The world’s most followed cellist takes an enforced career break
Zoe Keating, the fusion cellist with a global…
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