classical music

You are about to find out. From the press release: …Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) comes to The Bradshaw Hall at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire this July. In what is believed to be the […]

The Virginia Symphony Orchestra has bestowed the title Emeritus on its concertmaster for 31 years, Vahn Armstrong. Vahn will move sideways to occupy the third chair of the First Violin section. The post Concertmaster steps […]

The RCO concert passed conducted by Semyon Bychkov without incident. The only unusual aspect was the both managers – orchestra (Dominik Winterling) and venue (Simon Reinink)- made themselves visible. Reinink, 58, is the one who […]

A curious approach from mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, who sings Carmen in the new Glyndebourne production: ‘She is a freedom fighter­, but I also perceive her as a true feminist. For example, in the fight scene […]

The Royal Opera has published two cast changes to Carmen on May 17, 20, and 23. Ramona Zaharia comes in for Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in the title role and Adam Smith subs for Brandon Jovanovich as […]

After a wave of international outrage, the management of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw has reinstated Saturday’s concert by the Jerusalem Quartet, which it previously banned on safety grounds. The concert has been brought forward to 7 p.m. […]

The incoming music director of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra is to be James S. Kahane, 28. Like so many sticks these fays, he speaks fluent Finnish. Kahane studied in Sakari Oramo’s conducting class at the […]

Here’s a new statement from musical leaders, in condemnation of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw: We, the undersigned, wish to express our strongest indignation at the decision to cancel the Jerusalem String Quartet’s two performances at the […]

Amid the fury of thousands of musicians at the Concertgebouw’s cancellation of the Jerusalem Quartet, one institution has gone silent. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO), resident at the hall though independently managed, has uttered not […]

The commercial station is making virtue of necessity by proclaiming it now has 4.4 million weekly listeners. This is historically its lowest-ever reach. It marks the continuation of a long-running decline resulting from a failure […]