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From SWR: The planned renovation of the Stuttgart Opera House could cost between 1.5 and 2 billion euros – this is what research by the SWR has shown. Up until now, the public has always […]

Message from the Kansas diva: Last night: I kept vigil through the whole night and early morning. Then my eyes closed – numb – of their own volition. I woke a few minutes/lifetimes later bathed […]

Studiolo – Met Museum Writer Amor Towles  finds inspiration in a visit to one of his favourite places in The Met, the magical Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio. This is a little cubbyhole in […]

Beijing has staged a concert in memory of Seiji Ozawa, who was born in China and did much to assist cultural relations with Japan and America. Tuesday’s concert was conducted by Yu Lu, Ozawa’s student […]

In the latest tug-of-war between the Monteverdi and Orchestra and its dismissed founder Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the MCO has revived the SDG record label that the conductor founded after his falling out with Deutsche […]

Fauré Chamber Music Masterclass Click here to watch One of the treats I have allowed myself this week is to watch a Fauré Master Class given at Wigmore Hall by Cellist Stephen Isserlis  with some young […]

From the Doyle sale catalogue: NEW YORK, NY — Following the success of his 1948 debut novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, and the publication of his 1949 first collection of short stories, A Tree of […]

Everybody’s hottest Carmen of 2024, the Tunisian-Canadian Rihab Chaieb has just switched to London-based Intermusica. She was formerly with TACT for just over a year. Photo by Richard Hubert Smith/Glyndebourne The post Biz news: Inter […]

Bavarian Radio has released audio of Lise Davidsen singing the second act of Tristan und Isolde for the first time. Stuart Skelton is Tristan. Simon Rattle conducts. The sound is phenomenal. The post Step forward […]

Yesterday morning, before daybreak, the BBC launched Radio 3 Unwind, a 24/7 stream of calming classical music. It aims ‘to enhance wellbeing and help listeners escape the pressures of daily life’. The morning show, presented […]