classical music

Message from José Miguel Pérez-Sierra: I am happy to be able to share with you my appointment as Musical and Artistic Director of the Royal Opera Festival in Krakow. In addition to the close collaboration […]

Today, Northern Ballet is performing Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon without its orchestra. Two of the nation’s core arts institutions have been stripped bare by Arts Council England. This is […]

The Czech Philharmonic has lost its music director for the opening of the season while he undergoes back surgery. The first three concerts will be conducted by Charles Dutoit. Bychkov, 71, will be incapacitated for […]

Five staffers have resigned and one has been fired for wearing pro-Palestine propaganda at work. The arts centre, founded in 1874 as a Jewish facility, hosts many classical music performances. Story here. The post Gaza […]

US violinist Mayumi Kanagawa (centre among the finalists) has won this year’s George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest with a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’s 3rd concerto. Second was South Korea’s Hyeonjeong Lee, aged 13. Japan’s […]

From a correspondent: I am a retired full time chorister who worked at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from the mid-1970s until recently. When I started, I made $125/week for 13 weeks and about $4/hr […]

Dr Harry Brunjes, who has presided over ten years of destruction at English National Opera, is stepping down. He has resisted that move valiantly for a very long time. The good doctor may now enjoy […]