classical music

Culture senator Joe Chialo has said the city needs to make further savings in addition to the 131 million euros slashed in the present budget. He’s talking of reductions of 149 million euros next year […]

Herbert Fritsch’s production of The Barber of Seville has some stage business involving opoungent cheese. Krone reports that the foul smell reached the audience and many people walked out. The production has been replaced by […]

The Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov has made his conducting debut at the Winter Arts Festival in Sochi, wielding his stiick over Verdi’s Requiem. Abdra was cancelled by western theatres after aligning himself with Vladimir Putin’s […]

Maureen Carr, founding director of the Penn State School of Music, has died aged 85. She was an assiduous Stravinsky researcher, visiting the Paul Sacher archives in Basel no fewer than 27 times for manuscript […]

Dear Alma, I am a singer in Washington, DC, and I was very disappointed that the Kennedy Center has announced it has cancelled an upcoming performance featuring the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC. This […]

NPR reports that the  John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was evacuated yesterday following a phoned-in bomb threat. The threat was aimed at Shen Yun, a touring dance troupe linked to the religious […]

Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 Violinist Janine Jansen led a terrific International Chamber Music Festival last month in Utrecht, Netherlands. So many of you enjoyed her group’s Schubert Octet a couple of weeks ago that […]

The violinist Hilary Hahn has announced her return next Wednesday after a seven-month lay-off with a trapped nerve. She has announced her resumption in the past hour. I’m thrilled to return to the stage with […]