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The incoming music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra is not receiving a unanimous welcome. The Human Rights Foundation has been running poster trucks through Manhattan, highlighting Dudamel’s connections with the military regime in […]

The Australian Nicholas Carter, who is presently chief conductor at Oper Bern in Switzerland, has been named Generalmusikdirektor of Staatsoper Stuttgart, one of the leading German houses. He will succeed Cornelius Meister in 2006. Stuttgart […]

The orchestra is bidding farewell to Alessandro Cappone, who is retiring from the first violin section after 44 years. His father, Giusto Cappone, was principal viola under Herbert von Karajan from 1958 to 1984. Alessandro […]

The Met has posted video of a visibly nervous Lise Davidsen taking her first jump into the Tosca pit:     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by The Metropolitan Opera (@metopera) […]

Zurich Opera hired the Russian exile Kirill Serebrennikov to mark  what would have been Alfred Schnittke’s 90th borthday this month. His staging of ‘The Idiot’ replaces recent anti-Putin connotations with maximum gay exposure. From Lotte […]

Message from Cecilia Bartoli: During the 2025 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, you will hear a selection of music spanning five centuries, featuring works that were either written in Venice, created for Venice or inspired by the […]

From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I am a public school orchestra director. I am pretty young, I graduated a couple of years ago, and then got a job (really nice one) in the […]

As long as I live – Cabaret Convention  I didn’t get to the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s   annual Cabaret Convention in New York this year because of a scheduling conflict but I was there in spirit […]

press release: CHICAGO – Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) on a six-city, eight-concert U.S. tour (January 14–24, 2025) that marks their first domestic tour together since January 2023. Muti, the Orchestra’s distinguished 10th […]

A seriously destabilised Winchester Cathedral, undergoing a thorough bishop’s investigation over bullying allegations, has extended its interim director of music by one year. It says this will ‘allow the Cathedral time to develop its aspirations’. […]