classical music

Alexander Shustorovich, president of IMG Artists, has launched a bid to take over classical artists who are listed with WME. ‘If the artists at WME are up for grabs, that doesn’t mean we’ll get them […]

press release: Royal College of Music student, Robyn Anderson has won a place on the Berlin Philharmonic’s highly competitive Karajan Academy programme…  This exceptional opportunity places Robyn among a select few musicians accepted each year, gaining experience in rehearsals and concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic as well as individual lesson […]

The death has been announced, aged 94, of the venerable Burton Fine, principal viola for 29 years of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He started out as a research chemist with the space agency NASA.   […]

From the French magazine le canard enchainé, under the strapline ‘Metoo Classical music’: Le flûtiste et chef d’orchestre est connu dans le milieu de la musique baroque pour son insistance à vouloir masser les pieds […]

From the general manager’s self-admiring Sunday sermon in the pushover NY Times: … I arrived at the Met in 2006 with plans to re-energize its audience engagement through new productions of the classics and new […]

The press service of the Mariinsky Theater has announced the death of its principal dancer Vladimir Shklyarov. ‘This is a huge loss for the entire Mariinsky Theatre team. Our condolences to the artist’s family, loved […]

From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, My 2nd and 3rd year of college was during Covid. I play a wind instrument. It was very tough to improve during those years, and even after that I […]

Alastain Macaulay reviews Donizetti’s time-shifted Elixir of Love at English National Opera: Harry Fehr’s English National Opera adorable production of Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” (“L’Elisir d’Amore”, 1832) doesn’t just translate this idyllic rural comedy […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Ethel Smyth was a middle-class butch lesbian from an English military family who went to jail for the Suffragette cause and was seen conducting fellow-inmates at Holloway Prison […]