classical music

The Royal Northern Sinfonia has put on Michael Tippett’s oratorio in a performance involving amateur musicians and singers from across the North East of England. The idea is to underline the universality and topicality of […]

Two British orchestras are following an identical method of crisis resolution. The Monteverdi orchestras and chorus got rid of their founder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, after failing to reach agreement on issues of anger management. […]

For around two decades, Peter Gelb at the Met has expanded his reach into cinemas and done his best to exclude all other opera houses from his hoome market. Now, facing declining audiences, he has […]

 Ten things Point of View Click here to watch On the website for the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s great museum, there is a series of  called Ten Things. Drawn from their own collections, the curators have drawn […]

Netflix has begun streaming a short documentary on the double-bassist Orin O’Brien, who became the first female member of the New York Philharmonic in 1966 under Leonard Bernstein. There were no dressing rooms for women. […]

A blunt email from the festival said today that rising costs were imposing economies on th festival in its 150th anniversary year. Here’s the official line: The current cost developments pose major challenges for the […]

Once upon a time there were two comedic Chinese-Australian violinists called TwoSet. They made people laugh. Then they got bored and packed it in. Now they’re back with an expensive rebrand that employs half the […]

Message received: Notre-Dame de Paris will reopen this weekend, having been restored in just five years after a raging fire destroyed its 800-year-old wooden roof frame and caused its iconic spire to collapse on April […]