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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s President and CEO Jonathan Martin will retire in February after seven years at the helm. He arrived in Cinc’y from a long stint at the Dallas Symphony. In April this year […]

In an impassioned open letter to the Senate not to cancel the Komische Oper renovation, its former Australian director – never knowingly unexaggerated – goes way over the top. We reprint the relevant sections from […]

Messages are pouring in on the death of Dr Leah Brown, lecturer at the University of Trinidad and Tobago and music director of the Lydians. Her teaching was transformational.   View this post on Instagram […]

Message from Felicia Moore: I’m pretty shocked this is happening but I am now taking over the full run of Marie-Ève Signeyrole’s new production of Macbeth here at @deutscheoperberlin with Maestro Enrique Mazzola at the […]

Chainstore owner Arthur Blank has given an absolute fortune to Atlanta Opera to fund a building in his mum’s name. The Molly Blank Center for Opera will include a 200-seat recital hall, rehearsal spaces, offices […]

The Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov, a vocal supporter of his president’s wars, has issued a statement on social media following his latest disappearance from a foreign stage: Cancellation of Don Carlo and Attila in Napoli […]

From the Daily Telegraph: Ryanair and easyJet have been fined €179m (£149m) for “abusive practices” such as charging passengers for hand luggage. Spain fined the two carriers, along with Vueling, Norwegian Air and Volotea, and […]

Memo to Peter Gelb: Don’t read the Opera America survey of 11,000 new operagoers over four seasons and 36 US opera companies. It will only prove you wrong and we know you hate to be […]

From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I am a student at a reputable music school pursuing an advanced degree. I am happy with the program and am learning a lot, but the one area in […]

Then enterprising siooloist Charles Castleman has entrusted his 1707 ‘Marquis de Champeaux’ Stradivarius violin to the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels. Castleman came fifth in the Queen Elisabeth competition in 1963 and maintained a […]