classical music

Maybe Happy Ending and Swept Away I’ve seen two terrific plays this week which I would recommend to any New Yorkers or visitors to New York who might be after a wonderful evening in the theatre. […]

The South African soprano Elza van den Heever, presently in Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Met, has let it be known on social media that she’s singing Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Bayreuth […]

Within 24 hours of losing home-grown Natalya Romaniw, the Intermusica agency has signed the Canadian Sondra Radvanovsky, formerly with CSM in Berlin. She’ll be working at IM with Nathan Morrison. The post Soprano comes, soprano […]

The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez lived for sixty years across the border in Baden-Baden and is buried there. Next year is the centenary of his birth. The town of Baden-Baden is planning its […]

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded an initial £452,035 to raise the former Georgian church on Smith Square, built in 1728, to international concerthall standard. The project aims to repair the historic fabric of […]

The British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason was checking in on a flight from Cincinnati to Toronto when desk officials told him he could not board the cello. Both he and the cello had fully paid seats […]

An anonymous donor with a $4 million gift has enabled the San Francisco Symphony to pay 32 chorus members the pay increase they were demanding. ‘All of us at the San Francisco Symphony are deeply […]

A Swiss newspaper has obtained a letter from the authorities in Lucerne, ordering the concert hall to cancel a June 2024 recital by the Russian-Austrian soprano ‘for reputation and damages risks’. The letter, sent by […]

The British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and his pianist sister Isata were obliged to cancel a recital at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory last night after a double disaster with international airlines. They issued an apology to concertgoers, […]

The American harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, the most recorded artist on her instrument, resigned last night in dismay from the embattled Cleveland Institute of Music. Oklahoma born, Yolanda is married to Michael Sachs, principal trumpet of […]