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The innovative opera director has resigned as artistic director at the LA-based Industry. He has been booked to direct a Ring cycle at the Met and wants to spend more time near the furnace. Tim […]

The English violinist ascribes three months of temporary deafness to the third Covid jab. He also suffered extreme fatigue, he tells Dalya Alberge in the Observer: “I turned into a zombie … I’d be nodding […]

Next summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival presents a version of Britten’s opera redesigned for pinchpenny times: A mystery of origins and formal uncertainty shroud the story of Billy Budd, both in its operatic version, combining the libretto […]

Next summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival presents a version of Britten’s opera redesigned for pinchpenny times: A mystery of origins and formal uncertainty shroud the story of Billy Budd, both in its operatic version, combining the libretto […]

The Vienna State Opera is about to open a sideline space for schoolchildren and young people. It is called NEST. In overall charge is VSO intendant Bogdan Roscic. What is described as  NEST’s’project development’ is […]

Southwwark Cathedral is advertising for a director of music, in place of Ian Keatley, who died tragically while on holiday this summer. The pay is £55k, which doesn’t go far in London these days. And […]

The Los Angeles Master Chorale has announced the death of co-founder Marshall Rutter. Artistic director Grant Gershon said: ‘Marshall Rutter was the quiet force behind a remarkable blossoming of choral music in America. As one […]

The US pianist has gone back to her first agent, Tania Dorn, now operating a successful boutique. The drift from big-barn agency to small continues. It seems Dinnerstein has also dropped her exclusivity with ailing […]

From our special correspondent in Tel Aviv, Dan Yakir: The Finish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski conducted six subscription concerts during his Israel Philharmonic debut. After a dazzling performance of Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the […]

Audra Macdonald  One of the shows I most wanted to see in New York was the new production of Gypsy starring the wonderful Audra Macdonald. Sadly, the tickets prices are so outrageous – a good […]