classical music

The image below has gone up on a wall at the stage door of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC, days after the Veep was booed at a symphony concert.   View […]

A Hannover musician convicted of trying to poison two of his colleagues in the Schleswig-Holstein Symphonty Orchestra is back in court today after a superior court overturned part of the original verdict of attempted murder. […]

The Polar Music Prize for 2025 was announced this morning. The recipients are singer-condcutor Barbara Hannigan, the jazz pianist Herbie Hancock and the legacy rock group, Queen. Each receives a million Swedish crowns (US$93,897) and […]

The violinist Linus Roth, artistic director of Festival Ibiza Conciertos, is keen to avoid the irritation of paying by cash or card. He says: ‘Ibiza has always been a hub of innovation and creativity, exactly […]

It became known today that Graham Parker has left the Louisville Orchestra, where he was CEO for just under three years. He left on February 28. The orchestra said it delayed sharing the information ‘out […]

This was posted a couple of weeks ago on Insta. Anyone recognise the soloist and conductor? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Юмор через контрабасизм (@rustam_salmankhanov) The post So who’s the jumping […]

The Metropolitan Opera’s general manager has been giving some pre-curtain thoughts on Fidelio. ‘It’s a mesage to dictators that rings true today… My personal heroine is my wife, the conductor Kerri-Lynn Wilson, who, as I […]

The Barbican Centre’s last CEO, Claire Spencer, left in the dead of August after just 18 months amid loud whispers that she had been bullied out of the job by City of London bosses. Not […]

Yesterday’s winners at the Met Opera’s Laffont Competition are: Sadie Cheslak, 30, mezzo-soprano (Duluth, Minnesota) Michelle Mariposa, 30, mezzo-soprano (Quezon City, Philippines) Luke Sutliff, 28, baritone (Denver, Colorado) Alissa Goretsky, 25, soprano (Los Angeles) Emma […]

The Berlin Philharmonic has put out a terse statement of change to this week’s schedule: ‘It is with great regret that for health reasons Zubin Mehta has been forced to cancel the concerts from 20 […]