classical music

Welcome to Le Grand Hôtel de l’Opéra: a brand-new show set in the 1920s that weaves the music from Johann Strauss, Donizetti and Mozart into an international tangle of mischief and seduction. Le Grand Hôtel […]

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The orchestra has congratulated Yun Zeng on passing his probationary period. As of today he is officially solo horn with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Yun Zeng comes from a family of musicians with a long tradition […]

In an interview for the classical music platform BackstageClassical (also available as a podcast), Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, warns of the far-reaching consequences of Donald Trump’s presidency for […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: He  was a master manipulator of media. One night in Liverpool, he invited leading journalists to a champagne reception at the Adelphi, where he proceeded to unscrew light-bulbs […]

Ilia Papoian, who came third at the last Tchaikovsky Competition, is happy to speak truth to power when he gets the chance: “It is an enormous honor for me to perform before the president in […]