classical music

The pinnacle of UK theatre is reducing is stage team from 24 to just seven as a cost-efficiency measure. There has been no outcry in national media and no threat of union action. It’s just […]

We gather that Martyn Brabbins, who resigned two years ago as music director of English National Opera in face of its dismemberment, has been appointed Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of India, starting in […]

I know it’s the silly season, but what could be sillier than this? The ‘Blumine’ movement dumped by Gustav Mahler from his first symphony is played by the Nuremberg State Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Roland […]

The Swiss big-tent festival plans to open a satellite event in Shenzhen this winter. They say: The inaugural 2026 “Verbier Festival in Shenzhen” will run for ten days, from 30 January to 8 February 2026, […]

The chief executive of the Royal Opera House has written to major patrons, offering an assurance that the decision to cancel a co-pro with Israeli Opera was not in any way political, and that it […]

The Argentine virtuoso Patricio Cosentino is having a nightmare experience with the Spanish airline, which is co-owned with British Airways. Just when you think major airlines can’t get worse… they will always surprise you. Here’s […]

Message from the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra: It was our great honour to dedicate Saturday’s Lamb & Vale Jan. Appointed as Christchurch Symphony Orchestra’s first professional concertmaster in 1992, Jan van den Berg made an indelible mark […]