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Orchestras
Can we still afford to pay live musicians?
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Opera
Top soprano: Why I have moved to Vienna
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Orchestras
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RIP
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Munich has nine new operas, none startling
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Orchestras
Bruckner suspends two bosses
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RIP
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Was ‘Over the Rainbow’ originally a song of Norway?
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RIP
Death of an opera conductor, 91
The French pianist Jean-Pierre Marty, a pupil of…
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Orchestras
San Francisco musicians are ‘devastated’
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RIP
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Album Of The Week
So how good is Chicago’s next music director?
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Ruth Leon recommends
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Opera
Look who’s pitching for Salzburg
Munich media are reporting that Serge Dorny, Belgian…
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Orchestras
San Francisco Symphony was caught in a perfect storm
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News
Student drops out over Cleveland sacking
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Opera
Swap mother for a motorbike – divorce Spanish style
Cambio madre por moto (Swap mother for a motorbike) is…
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RIP
Leading opera director dies at 62
The Canadian director Michael Cavanagh, Artistic Director of…
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RIP
Death of Germany’s foremost opera composer
The Berlin composer Aribert Reimann died yesterday at…
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Orchestras
A Kansas orchestra is liquidated
The Hutchinson Symphony has told its musicians that…
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Orchestras
Cleveland fires viola
Professors tell us that the disorderly Cleveland Institute…
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Orchestras
LA Opera joins the music director hunt
James Conlon in stepping down after 20 years….
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