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Opera house announces ‘zero tolerance for any abuse of our artists’
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Are there 45 Mozart symphonies? Is he writing any more?
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End of history: Patelson’s has been demolished
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Big prize night for electronic composers
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Just in: Fraudster’s agency loses shining star
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Leila is selling her Salonen violin
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Resurrected: Record dealer rises again under another name
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Cancer takes energising French mezzo
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More music cuts: Sweden sacks its Navy band
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Yo Yo’s pianist, 90, lives in a retirement community
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Maestro tips #1: ‘Make ’em think it’s their idea’
The veteran Rochester conductor Christopher Seaman gives away…
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Alberto Vilar ‘tried to save City Opera’
A letter to the Editor of the New…
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The Budapest blood libel opera: exclusive first report
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Breaking: Bayreuth sells out online in 90 minutes
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Exclusive pic: Alberto Vilar goes to the Met, as Gergiev’s guest
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Fritz Reiner: sadist, or genius?
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