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Versailles yesterday witnessed the death of Martial Solal, an epic figure in French jazz and film. A Jewish pianist from Algiers, he mingled in 1950s Paris with Django Reinhardt and Sydney Bechet, forming his own […]

This is the official blessing for the reopening of the great organ of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. Not everyone was impressed by the esoteric repertoire, least of all some world leaders. Here’s a reasoned critique. […]

The Bolshoi and Marinsky star Ildar Abdrazakov, banned in the West for his support of Putin’s wars, has been appointed artistic director of the Sebastopol State Opera and Ballet Theatre, currently under construction. Sebastopol, a […]

What were English National Opera chiefs thinking when they approved a run of Instagram posts that reduce the art form to puerile caricature? The posts are neither funny nor intelligent. Several singers are expressing rage. […]

The composer  Michio Mamiya, winner of a grand prix at the 1974 Salzburg Festival with his opera Narukami, has died at the age of 95. He was most widely known for composing anime cartoon films. […]

Macbeth- Ralph Fiennes Click here to subscribe ​ Ralph Fiennes and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma star in a brand-new modern dress production of William Shakespeare’s shortest play. If you’re not familiar with Macbeth, it’s […]

264, That One Star is a new Korean opera created and produced by the Daegu Opera House. The voice in poetry of the Korean independence movement during the Japanese colonial period, his real name was […]

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German opera houses are sharing their shock at the unexpected death in Berlin of the highly regarded Rainer Casper. A career-long partner of the director Frank Castorf, he started out at the Volksbühne in Berlin […]

Andris Nelsons will conduct the nine symphonies in four consecutive concerts next month, the first linked cycle since Koussevitsky’s in 1927. Nelsons says: ‘For centuries, the music of Beethoven has brought us together by expressing […]