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The US tenor Brian Jagde was supposed to take the lead in the Met’s new run of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades. When he pulled out, the Met called in Brandon Jovanovich. Now he’s gone, too. […]

The ballet has announced the death of Yuri Grigorovich, its all-powerful director from 1964 to 1995. No large stage in the Soviet Union was untouched by his productions. His most performed choreographies included Prokofiev’s Ivan […]

London’s dowdy Barbican Centre, home to the London Symphony Orchestra, is to spend £240 million doing the place up before its 50th anniversary at the end of the decade. Phase one will deliver a conservatory […]

Two award-winning sopranos Sarah Fleiss and Juliette Tacchino have joined Curtis Artist Management for general management and worldwide representation. They are the first singers from the college to be taken on by the in-house agency. […]

Prague City Council has appointed the Czech pianist and educator Ivo Kahánek to be director of the Prague Conservatoire, one of Europe’s oldest music colleges, founded in 1808. Kahánek, 45, will take up the post […]

There’s a surprise #1 on the Apple Classical global streaming charts this week. It’s a French-US harpsichordist called Justin Taylor playing Chopin on a Pleyel pianino of 1839. The label is Outhere. Is Justin out […]

Three yars ago, we featured the work of orchestral cellist and photographer Charles Brooks who likes to get inside whatever he’s playing. Charles has now got inside a Stradivarius violin. The instrument is the 1717 […]

The Japanese Bach specialist Masaaki Suzuki will direct the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists for the first time next month at St Martin-in-the-Fields, on June 19. The programme is taken from the 1725 cantatas. […]