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We have received this report from Taryn Luterbach, who runs a boutique artist management agency from the town of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada . Regina is a small city of less than 300,000 people, but […]

This is slightly out of the ordinary. A festival in Australia has appointed the concertmaster of the nearest orchestra to be its next director. She is Kate Suthers of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. The event […]

A critical sentence on an opera-fan website has entangled Leipzig Oper in a body-shaming storm. The site is deropernfreund.de, the author is Dieter David Scholz and the opera is Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, which ought […]

Le Sacre du Printemps The first performance of Le Sacre du Printemps took place in Paris 112 years ago this week on May 29, 1913. This groundbreaking ballet with its radical music and choreography by […]

The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina, a regional orchestra of no significant pedigree, has raised more than $50 million in a three-year campaign that should push it way up the industry rankings. The music […]

The London Mozart Players is seeking a new chief executive. The incumbent, Flynn Le Brocq, has found a job as director of admissions at a boarding school in Rutland. Le Brocq lasted four years at […]

Wise Music Group has published news of the passing of the Danish composer Per Nørgård. The foremost musical Dane since Carl Nielsen, Nørgård composed eight symphonies, six operas, ten concertos, choral music, much chamber music […]

The Israeli-American pianist talks to David Krauss on Speaking Soundly about growing up with two brother musicians with parents who were dedicated scientists. She married the US conductor David Robertson ansd their teenaged son is […]

The 2025 Fanny Mendelssohn Composition Prize has been awarded to a 29-year-old Hungarian, Abigél Varga. She receives 10,000 euros and a commission to compose a chamber music work for zither and trumpet. Since the announcement […]

The Broadway star Patti LuPone has told New Yorker writer Michael Schulman that the DC arts centre should be eliminated now that it has been taken over by the Tump administration. ‘She’s even angrier at […]