Pick of the Week

Three days ago, the respected Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that ‘it is known’ that the tenors Rolando Villazon and Jonas Kaufmann

By our violin diarist, Anthea Kreston: There she was, on stage in front of 2,000 people. Confident, smiling, communicating with

Locked-out musicians of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra have petitioned the organisation to be included in talks about their future. It

The London Symphony Orchestra has just unrolled details of its inaugural tour next month with Sir Simon Rattle. It opens

The city of Auckland in New Zealand has renamed a thatre after the country’s most successful opera singer. Kiri inaugurated

The conductor gives his farewell concert in Lucerne on September 6. The day before, the festival will present a book

As lawyers for LA Opera get to work today examining the sex-pest allegations against Placido Domingo, the consequences of this

Opera Australia has unveiled plans for a Wagner Ring cycle in the plain-spoken northern city of Brisbane in November-December 2020.

The Grand Austrian State Prize, worth 30,000 Euros, has gone to the Austrian composer, Thomas Larcher, 55. It’s his turn.

A message from Eugene Kohn, who has conducted Placido Domingo more than 800 times in 52 years. EUGENE KOHN I

Christopher Hoare, IT and communications director at HarrisonParrott, has been convicted at Westminster Magistrates Court of defrauding the company of