John Williams conducts Seiji Ozawa’s Japan orchestra

The Mexican soprano Lourdes Ambriz, the voice of Belle in Disney’s 1990 Spanish-language version of Beauty and the Beast, has died at 67. After a diverse international opera career, Lourdes served from 2015 to 2017 […]

Message from a frustrated reader: Dear Mr Lebrecht, I recently created a small concert series with my sister, Harriet Mackenzie (https://harrietmackenzie.com/) presenting some legendary pieces of classical repertoire. In order to promote our series we […]

When their flight was cancelled on Monday morning, the Budapest Festival Orchestra were in despair. They were due to play that evening at the Bozar in Brussels to mark Hungary’s presidency of the Council of […]