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Next season at Unter den Linden, the first with Christian Thielemann as Daniel Barenboim’s successor, opens with Verdi’s Nabucco. It’s a new production by Emma Dante, opening on October 2. The cast is headed by […]

The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam has called off two concerts this week by the Israeli string quartet ‘due to announced demonstrations, and recent developments surrounding protests in Amsterdam.’ The hall said it has ‘a duty guarantee […]

The Staatskapelle Dresden has lost its former maestro to illness for a European tour, starting next Sunday. Jumping in at Dresden, Vienna and Hamburg is Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (pictured. Taking over in Paris, Essen, Cologne and […]

The Bristol Beacon, the city’s music edication hub, has appointed Simon Wales as CEO. He’s the former head of LSO St Lukes and Birmingham’s B:Music. The Bristol Beacon was formerly Colston Hall.   The post […]

Even with royal highlights, nobody wants to remain on the subs bench. press release: Peter Holder, Sub-Organist at Westminster Abbey, has been appointed Organist and Official Student (Tutorial Fellow) at Christ Church, Oxford. In his […]

The trumpeter Alison Balsom has left HarrisonParrott to join its former executive Tugce Tez in her boutique agency. Balsom has previously been with AskonasHolt and Imogen Lewis Holland The post Biz news: Alison Balsom quits […]

Oper Frankfurt has asked Sesto Quatrini to take charge of both Otellos in the coming weeks – Rossini’s on May 17, 19, 26, 31 and June 8, 15 ; and Verdi’s on June 22, 30 […]

The Peru-born conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, former chief of Fort Worth Symphony (2002-2020) and Norwegian Radio (2013-2020),is to be Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at Shepherd School, Rice University. The post has been vacant […]

Polish National Opera will include Penderecki’s The Black Mask as one of four new productions next season. The director is the British opera chief Sir David Pountney, whose championing of Weinberg’s The Passenger has earned […]

The veteran conductor Vladimir Fedoseev, 91, told a Victory Day concert audience in Moscow of his personal recollections of the Great Patriotic War: ‘I still have it all before my eyes… It’s hard to say […]