This year’s Lammermuir Festival runs from 4 to 15 September 2025, your chance to hear some of the world’s finest musicians in the historic venues and stunning landscape of East Lothian The festival’s artist in residence this […]
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Act 1) – Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), Andreas Schager (Tristan), Jordan Shanahan (Kurwenal), Camilla Nylund (Isolde), Günther Groissböck (Marke) – Bayreuth Festival, 2025 (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath) Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Andreas […]
Three days after 182 anonymous staff members attacked its Gaza silence, the Royal Ballet and Opera has scrapped a plan to share its new Tosca production with Israeli Opera next year. Chief exec Alex Beard […]
The chorus has posted this message: The Chorus is shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of our beloved Seth Malkin. A member of the company since 1996, Seth sang bass in the Metropolitan Opera […]
Only Max Richter’s everlasting snooze is rising in this week’s Apple classical top ten: 1 Mozart: Violin Concertos Chloe Chua, Ziyu He, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf 2 Sleep Max Richter 3 Sommernachtskonzert 2025 Wiener […]
On the anniversary of the first nuclear-bomb attack on August 6, 1945, spare a moment for the human tragedy that was meant to bring the Second World War to an end. The immediate death toll […]
A piano tuner in the city hit 80 years ago by an atomic bomb has dedicated much of his life to restoring keyboards that somehow survived the devastation. Yagawa Mitsunori, 73, has so far brought […]
A procession of Roden Girl Choristers closed the service, accompanied by an organ improvisation by the Dutch organist Sietze de Vries. Perfect peace. The post Girls add grace to Evensong at York Minster appeared first […]
The London-based double-bassist Valentina Scheldhofen Ciardelli (pictured) is gathering signatures for a petitition to pressure the European Parliament to oblige airlines to protect instruments from mishandling by airlines. The petition, which has already attracted several […]
From our roving critic Susan Hall: The American director Peter Sellars, a fixture at the Salzburg Festival, arrived this year with a juxtaposition of works by Anton Schoenberg (Erwartung) and Gustav Mahler (Der Abschied from […]
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