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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
Many happy returns to Abdullah Ibrahim, South Africa’s…
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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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Disturbances at Berlin’s Abbado memorial concert
A cellphone went off and there was a…
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Pianist, 17, wins BBC Young Musician of the Year
Martin James Bartlett, 17, won the final of…
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New video: Bocelli invades Israeli wedding scene
The Italian tenor’s torch song ‘Con te partiro’…
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Currently, the world’s worst airline?
Over recent weeks we have received a trickle…
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A musical flush from the world’s first museum of toilets
David Conway reports for Slipped Disc from the unique…
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Anna Netrebko cancels rest of tour
First she pulled out of a date in…
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How to conduct Richard Strauss
The inscrutable Furtwängler in 1950. Can anyone name…
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A great Met bass has died
Nicola Ghiuselev, one of a succession of dominant…
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A mighty bass was born today
It’s the Boris Christoff centenary. Born in Plovdiv,…
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Liverpool Lullaby no more
It was one of the great English contributions…
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Der Rosenkavalier opens with the Marschallin naked in the shower
That’s the word from the opening night at…
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The dance ad that gets everything ballet wrong
This is an advertisement for ‘the entirely…
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Huge surge in BBC Proms sales
On opening day, 110,000 concert tickets were sold….
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He could have been the greatest of them all
Ivry Gitlis is a legend among violinists. Few…
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Piano photo of the week
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The new Jacques Brel? He could be…
Extravagant claims are being made for the Belgian singer…
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Shoot the organist, he’s just wrecked our wedding
A viral classic from our Russian friends.
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A Mozart Requiem for a young singer, taken too soon
Co-Opera Co. will celebrate Felicity Smith’s life and…
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A classical star on the other side
Laura Mvula is a jazz-rock singer who graduated…
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Slipped Disc editorial: What is wrong with Pereira, Gelb and Campbell?
Three heads of opera are facing the consequences…
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