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Founder of the Opera Camerata of Washington, Micaele Sparacino was an instigator of operatic activity across the US. According to a colleague, he was found by a friend who went by for a wellness check […]

The city of Bologna has cancelled an August 5 concert by Alexander Romanovsky, a pianist who, according to the Liberal Democratic Party of Bologna, ‘played on the rubble of the theatre in Mariupol, a city […]

We have been notified of the death yesterday of David Rendall, a dominant figure at Covent Garden from the late 1970s. Having sung solo in a Herbert von Karajan Bruckner Te Deum, he went on […]

The populist tenor Russell Watson has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Greater Manchester ‘in recognition of his outstanding contribution to music and the arts’. Watson, 59, has survived two brain tumours. […]

From a press release: Chamber Music America Responds to NEA Funding Rescissions with New Grant Program. Together with the Sewell Family Foundation, CMA will provide $75,000 to organizations and ensembles that have lost federal funding. […]

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has named Henry Shapard as co-principal cellist. Shapard, 26, is presently principal of the Vancouver Symphony and professor of cello at the Vancouver Academy of Music. Also joining the cellos is […]

The parents of Alec Van Khajadourian, from Los Angeles, are claiming he is the youngest person ever to play at Carnegie. He played two short pieces in the NY Classical Debut Awards Gala Concert on […]

The Brazilian vocalist Preta Gil has died in New York after a two-year battle with bowel cancer. She died, aged 50, at an airport hospital while on her way to fly home. Her father, former […]

All across the UK, essential arts are being eliminated by auto-bureaucrats and politico-philisitines. The National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland has uplifted the province since just before the turn of the century. No more. The […]

Katrin Lion, wife of Michael Lion, has communicated tragic news of his unexpected death on Saturday. Lion was a popular member of  the Coburg State Theatre ensemble since 2008, singing a host of leading roles, […]