classical music

Before the various PR flood my inbox with protests, let me specify that the two elements above are not appearing together. Simon Rattle will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra for the first time in his […]

The Norwegian string player Eivind Ringstad joined the London Symphony Orchestra earlier this year as principal viola. As of this week, he is also professor of viola at the Royal College of Music. The RCM’s […]

The cornerstone Anglican church is offloading its choir school to save money. Background here. Now read this ‘prayerful’ piece of executive equivocation which, it is admitted, may not save the institution: A Message from the […]

The incoming music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra is not receiving a unanimous welcome. The Human Rights Foundation has been running poster trucks through Manhattan, highlighting Dudamel’s connections with the military regime in […]

The Australian Nicholas Carter, who is presently chief conductor at Oper Bern in Switzerland, has been named Generalmusikdirektor of Staatsoper Stuttgart, one of the leading German houses. He will succeed Cornelius Meister in 2006. Stuttgart […]

The orchestra is bidding farewell to Alessandro Cappone, who is retiring from the first violin section after 44 years. His father, Giusto Cappone, was principal viola under Herbert von Karajan from 1958 to 1984. Alessandro […]

The Met has posted video of a visibly nervous Lise Davidsen taking her first jump into the Tosca pit:     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by The Metropolitan Opera (@metopera) […]

Zurich Opera hired the Russian exile Kirill Serebrennikov to mark  what would have been Alfred Schnittke’s 90th borthday this month. His staging of ‘The Idiot’ replaces recent anti-Putin connotations with maximum gay exposure. From Lotte […]