Here’s the menu: Dienstag, 24. November 2020, 19.00 Uhr Piotr. I. Tschaikowski SCHWANENSEE (Vorstellung vom 16. März 2014) Choreographie: Rudolf Nurejew Musikalische Leitung: Alexander Ingram Mit

The Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho has become ambassador for child rights organisation in Albania. One in ten Albanian chuldren is believed to be a victim

Less than two months after his arrival at Switzerland’s Argovia Philharmonic, the Spanish manager Xoan Castineira is gone. Nobody’s saying exactly why but the word

Details have leaked – inevitably – of a video call in which the Met’s general manager told 500 employees that he would resume paying them

Why do we never hear the music of Albert Roussel? Once rated the finest French symphonist, Roussel (1869-1937) had a Debussyan gift for atmospherics (listen

Grover Wilhelmsen was being treated for Covid-19 at McKay-Dee Hospital in Utah when he asked his family to bring a violin and viola so that

The great US bass Arthur Woodley died yesterday at the age of 71. The conductor Stephen Lord mourns a friend: The year 2020 started with

The Philharmonia, lying low in Covid waters, has sold its name to a brand of gin.   I never had them down as a G&T

Official announcement: The Queen has approved the award of Her Majesty’s Medal for Music for the year 2020 to Thomas Trotter, 15 years to the

An independent inquiry into sexual abuse at the Royal Academy of Music has come up with a mild rap on the knuckles for an institution

It’s a lullaby by Avrom Goldfaden, and very beautiful too. Who knew?