Cecilia Bartoli opens debate on music and gender

The Rachmaninoff Conservatory of Paris, founded in 1923 by the exiled Fyodor Chaliapin and Alexander Glazunov, has inaugurated a statue of its namesake. The sculptor is Besik Solomonashvili and the image looks more like FDR […]

We’re hearing breath-stopping accounts of the Rosenkavalier revival at La Scala, conducted by Kirill Petrenko of the Berlin Philharmonic in his first appearance at the matrix of Italian opera. Giornale della Musica reports ‘endless applause’ […]

Southwwark Cathedral is advertising for a director of music, in place of Ian Keatley, who died tragically while on holiday this summer. The pay is £55k, which doesn’t go far in London these days. And […]