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The Metropolitan Opera has agreed to play three weeks each winter in Saudi Arabia in a deal said to be worth $100 million a year. Without it, the company was going to the wall, drawing […]

The Windsor Symphony Orchestra in Ontario, Canada, has announced the death of Robert Franz, its music director for the past 12 years. Franz, 57, was also music director of the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra and artistic […]

Fresh out of college, more or less – Co-Principal clarinet Adam Lee and cellists Jane Lindsay, Angus McCall and Wallis Power. The post BBC Symphony hires 3 cellists and a co-principal clarinet appeared first on […]

The Dutch violinist, unwell, has cancelled the Vienna Konzerthaus tonight. Alena Baeva (pic) is flying in to replace her in the Prokofiev first concerto with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä. The post Just in: […]

The Hilbert Agency’s transition this year from founder Germinal Hilbert to successor Andreas Dellert has hit a bump in the road. They have recruited Patrick Esser from the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus to put them back on […]

Message received: The DePaul University School of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Francesco Milioto as Music Director and Conductor of the DePaul Symphony Orchestra, beginning in the fall of 2025 with the […]

BBC Radio 3 has made a quiet arrangement with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields to help train its New Generation Artists. Pianist Julius Asal (pictured) has been chosen as the first ASMF […]

Aristo Sham, winner of this year’s Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, has signed with Intermusica New York for worldwide general management. He will looked after by Martin Wittenberg (New York) and David O’Leary (London). The […]

Message received: Serbian cellist Maja Bogdanović had a brush with the law when passing through Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Her bag triggered a red alert at security and within seconds she was surrounded by five policemen. […]

Backstage Classical reports: The Concerto Vocale Foundation and the Tölzer Knabenchor are strongly distancing themselves from conductor Julian Wachner following his arrest in the USA. Wachner, who is accused of, among other things, possession of […]