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Orchestras
Barenboim hands over the baton
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last…
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Orchestras
San Antonio is sinking
The SA Philharmonic has cancelled the rest of…
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Orchestras
Editorial: It’s time to change orchestra auditions
Two posts this weekend about auditions in Europe…
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Exclusive: Yuja finds another agent
Having waltzed out of Intermusica, where staff could…
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Classic FM is down to its smallest audience in 30 years
Rajar’s first-quarter figures for 2023 make uneasy reading…
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London orchestra recovers 75% of lost Arts Council grant
The London Sinfonietta has posted an assessment of…
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Opera
Who’s this kid conducting at the Met?
There were some puzzled looks yesterday when players…
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Opera
In opera as in life, Romeo and Juliet just got engaged
The French tenor Benjamin Bernheim, who has been…
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Orchestras
BBC proposes to move orchestra to Nottingham
A new proposal has been aired in talks…
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US conductor admits taking $150,000 from sex fiend Jeffrey Epstein
The conductor Leon Botstein, who is president of…
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Opera
Germany’s next music director is Canadian
Dortumund’s new General Music Director, in charge of…
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News
Eastman dean steps down
Jamal J. Rossi, dean of the Eastman School…
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Opera
Covent Garden loses an Aida
The ROH has let it be known that…
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Opera
Chicago Lyric signs growth deal with unions
No details but plenty of intent. Here’s what…
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Opera
Shock as Scottish Opera is reduced to just three shows
Scottish Opera has just admitted to its thinnest…
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News
Exclusive: Kurtag writes a piece in Ligeti’s memory
We hear from Budapest that the venerable composer…
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RIP
Iceland mourns its opera founder
The Icelandic Opera was founded on October 3,…
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Opera
ENO’s next season will have just one new show
Artistic director Annilese Miskimmon has quietly unfolded English…
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NY Times expert demolishes ‘racist’ Philip Ewell
The preposterous New York musicologist Philip Ewell has…
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Orchestras
A British conductor called Thatcher gets a call from France
The contemporary conductor Toby Thatcher, founder of Ensemble…
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Orchestras
Simon Rattle splashes out on first Munich season
Bavarian Radio’s incoming music director has been rolling…
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Opera
Birgit Nilsson: The gift that keeps on giving
Seventeen years after her death, the great Swedish…
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Daily Comfort Zone
Martha Argerich, off the world tour
An enthusiast today posted a video of Martha…
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Orchestras
Mine’s a wheat beer, maestro
Retiring as music director of the Edmonton Symphony…
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