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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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Eminent US baritone, RIP
The death has been communicated of Dominic Cossa,…
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US opera chief steps down
It has been announced tonight that Patrick Summers…
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Shock in cloisters as St Paul’s Cathedral appoints a woman organ scholar
It’s only taken a couple of millennia, but…
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Gergiev is summoned to Munich for clarifications
Deutsche Welle reports (in Russian) that the Green faction…
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He would have been 99 today
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Why was San Diego panicked into shutting down?
Up to the last board-room minute yesterday, plans…
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Richard Strauss’s love songs had words by a gay Scotsman
In March 1892, the young Strauss met a…
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It’s over in Hannover for enterprising music director
Karen Kamensek, busy music director at the Hannover…
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Musician is executed for murdering studio manager
There was no mitigating factor. Story here.
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Scottish oboist, 18, pleads guilty to child abuse
A small, personal tragedy in a morass of…
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The first woman to manage a London orchestra
We’ve received sad news of the death of…
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Vienna State Opera is financially ‘on the brink’
Its general director Dominique Meyer has given a…
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America’s second opera crash indicates a loss of will to live
There is no soft way to break bad…
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The author of ‘a shabby little shocker’
Professor Joseph Kerman, who has died aged 90,…
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Iola Brubeck, Dave’s wife and manager, has died
They were married for 70 years and had…
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Gidon Kremer on Putin’s Russia: ‘I cannot bear the mass hysteria, and the mass lies’
In an interview (in German) on Bayerische Rundfunk,…
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Artist who signed Putin support letter is long dead
In a fresh sign of Kremlin neo-Stalinism, it…
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Death of an oboe legend
Oboist friends have informed us of the death…
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Concert star describes 7-hour ‘Orwellian’ ordeal in UK Immigration
Cameron Carpenter returned to Britain this morning in…
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Berlin opera boss has died
Werner Rackwitz, who ran the Komische Oper from…
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Netrebko’s sub is Angela Gheorgiu. Beat that…
Flailing around for a new Marguerite after Anna’s…
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Disaster at Dartington: Director is ‘let go’
We’ve reported with mounting despair the calamitous decline…
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