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I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried. ‘It lacks style,’ I said, […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: When the British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said this week that he listened to Shostakovich if he was having a hard time, I wondered if he’d been […]

We have been informed of the death of Michael Ajzenstadt, a former Jerusalem Post journalist who became a reference point and artists’ friend at the national opera company. The cause of death has not been […]

The National Symphony Orchestra has erased the start of its season. Statement from the Kennedy Center: After months of largely collaborative and constructive labor negotiations, the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) are […]

The French cellist Ophélie Gaillard had her 1737 Goffriller instrument stolen in Paris in 2018, then mysteriously returned – left in a car under the window of her home. This time was much worse. ‘Thieves […]

The journalist Tobias Wolff who has been in charge of the company since 2022 is not having his contract renewed. He will leave in 2027, with more than 30 new productions still to come. Despite […]

Faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music have voted 56-25 to join the American Federation of Musicians. ‘This is a historic vote and a signal to the world that CIM will remain one of the […]

So vociferous were the boos last night for Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo that, before Elisabeth’s third-act aria Tu che le vanita’, conductor Philippe Jordan speared a white cloth with his baton […]

Stratford Fest – All’s Well Click here to rent or subscribe Set against the backdrop of the First World War, this Stratford Festival production reimagines Shakespeare’s comedy of unrequited love. In a daring adaptation by Scott […]

The Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media has signed a cheque for a the new Richard Wagner Academy at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele. Jan Vogler’s festival has become the space-lab for trying out Wagner operas in […]