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Maestro wins $190k for wrongful dismissal
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Orchestras
Exclusive: Minnesota Orchestra selects musicians on racial grounds
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Orchestras
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Opera
Jonas Kaufmann is out with Covid
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Moscow celebrates Sviatoslav Richter’s partner
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Tom Lehrer is 95
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Angela Gheorghiu cancels both Met performances with Covid
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Opera
Report: Netrebko’s husband is appointed head of national opera
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Opera
What the Met pays its artistic administrator
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A Ukrainian conductor is killed in action
The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine has confirmed…
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Album Of The Week
A five-star song cycle that was borne in silence for 20 years
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Daily Comfort Zone
From Boulez to Broadway, a British composer without borders
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A duo splits up, with a debut record to release
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A Canellakis move
The cellist, filmmaker and comedian Nicholas Canellakis has…
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Daily Comfort Zone
They said don’t call her Dame Granite. So I did
The 2012 Lebrecht Interview with Dame Janet Baker…
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Opera
On stream tonight – Eastern Europe conquers Rome’s new Aida
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Daily Comfort Zone
Valery Gergiev: The Lebrecht Interview before the fall
This was my 2012 interview with Gergiev, based…
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Opera
Hermann Levi’s split loyalties in the Dreyfus affair
The Wagnerian conductor visited Paris in the 1890s…
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News
A Chopin film protests three sites of inhumanity
A Polish TV documentary, ‘Chopin. I am Not…
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Maestro babe: social and personal
We congratulate the peripatetic French conductor Lionel Bringuier…
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Opera
San Diego cancels new opera for fiscal reasons
We present the company’s press release without comment:…
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