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The Met has posted video of a visibly nervous Lise Davidsen taking her first jump into the Tosca pit:     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by The Metropolitan Opera (@metopera) […]

Zurich Opera hired the Russian exile Kirill Serebrennikov to mark  what would have been Alfred Schnittke’s 90th borthday this month. His staging of ‘The Idiot’ replaces recent anti-Putin connotations with maximum gay exposure. From Lotte […]

Message from Cecilia Bartoli: During the 2025 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, you will hear a selection of music spanning five centuries, featuring works that were either written in Venice, created for Venice or inspired by the […]

From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I am a public school orchestra director. I am pretty young, I graduated a couple of years ago, and then got a job (really nice one) in the […]

As long as I live – Cabaret Convention  I didn’t get to the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s   annual Cabaret Convention in New York this year because of a scheduling conflict but I was there in spirit […]

press release: CHICAGO – Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) on a six-city, eight-concert U.S. tour (January 14–24, 2025) that marks their first domestic tour together since January 2023. Muti, the Orchestra’s distinguished 10th […]

A seriously destabilised Winchester Cathedral, undergoing a thorough bishop’s investigation over bullying allegations, has extended its interim director of music by one year. It says this will ‘allow the Cathedral time to develop its aspirations’. […]

The following notice has gone up in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, ending a year of unnecessary chaos.   The boss was wrong. Will she admit it? The post End of: CBSO bans happy snappers appeared first […]

The headline is  taken from a New Yorker opinion by Alex Ross on the composer’s 150th birth anniversary. We beg to disagree. Ives has fallen out of favour in the 21st century, and justly so. […]

From a Guardian article, based on a BBC Radio 3 essay:   In 1993, completely out of the blue, the Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda (pic) was sent a photocopy of a manuscript purporting to be […]