classical music

The Portuguese artist Maria João Pires announced her retirement in 2018, only to bounce back the following year for selected engagements. This year, turning 80, she is offering a holiday gift recital of Mozart and […]

In the week of the conductor’s 95th birthday, a website has been inaugurated to provide access to his life’s work. Ultimately, it promises, this will be the Nikipedia. Click here. The post Nikolaus Harnoncourt archive […]

The old intriguer’s opera La scuola de’ gelosi – ‘with a plot mirroring Mozart’s Così fan tutte’ – will receive its US premiere in LA next month. The world premiere was at the Teatro San […]

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. […]