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Deborah Rutter resigned as president last month, but she was not mean to go until the end of the year. However, in the past hour she said goodbye to her staff, leaving her office to […]

Ireland’s Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O’Donovan announced today that the country’s Arts Council spent €6.7 million (£5.7m) on an IT system that it soon abandoned. Report here. Why, they’re no better than the […]

The Alastair Macaulay Review this week comes from last night’s world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen at Covent Garden. Festen 2025.ii.12 by Alastair Macaulay How does the same harrowing drama succeed in several different […]

She played one of Schumann’s Kinderszenen in memory of a beloved, ‘fantastic’ colleague, Maria Tipo, who died this week. ‘She will be missed’ said Martha. The post Watch: Martha Argerich plays tribute to ‘inspirational’ Maria […]

Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim has written an eye-opening feature in the NY Times on the growing recognition for musicians who play for patients in hospital, and the development of professional standards. …on a brisk January morning […]

The American soprano, 66 this week, has expanded her portfolio to become Artist Development Advisor at Wolf Trap Opera. She is, additionally: – Artistic Advisor for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; […]

The company has said it cannot afford to stage Missy Mazzoli’s ‘Lincoln in the Bardo,’ based on George Saunders’ 2017 novel. The opera was dropped from next season’s schedule, announced last night, and will have […]

The academic Geoff Baker, emeritus professor at Royal Holloway University of London, has published a reflection on the 50th anniversary of the music education system that has become a propaganda instrument of a criminal regime. […]

The ostracised Russian soprano has uploaded to Youtube a film marking her 30th anniversary on stage. It is made and clunkily narrated by her present manager, Miguel Esteban. The film studiously avoids the hostilty she […]

Warner-owned Erato have issued an album of Sir Stephen Hough performing Mozart’s 9 & 21 piano concertos on Spotify. The music has been chopped into tracks of between 41 seconds and 1:07 to maximise streaming […]