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Message received: It is with great regret that Sondra Radvanovsky has had to withdraw from the title role of Turandot on The Royal Opera’s Japan tour due to a severe ear infection and sinusitis. She […]

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2024 has engaged Lithuanian performance-based artist Lina Lapelytė as Composer in Residence. Her duties? Born in Kaunas, Lapelytė is known for a performance-based practice rooted in music, flirting with pop culture, […]

Recent events are uncannily reminiscent of the T. S Eliot play, drawn from a memoir by a terrified Canterbury clerk. Here’s the 2024 update: Act 1 Director of Music Andrew Lumsden is dragged from the […]

Christopher Morley, long-serving arts editor of the Birmingham Post, has written an op-ed today attacking its flailing management and failing reputation. Here goes:     The name of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra glows […]

The Greensboro Symphony has named Christopher Dragon as its music director, the first in two decades. Born in Perth to Singapore parents, Dragon is also music director of the Wyoming Symphony. The post Aussie wins […]

The Italian harpsichordist, pianist, and conductor Ottavio Dantone is taking over as music director of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music for the next five years. Over this time the Accademia Bizantina from Ravenna, Italy, […]

Investor Jennifer Pritzker’s Tawani Foundation has just given ten mill to her local band. Half of it goes into a chellenge fund to secure matching grants. Ms Pritzker retired as a lieutenant colonel from the […]

Gabriel van Aalst, President & CEO of the New Jersey Symphony since 2016, is leaving in September to run a performing arts centre in Dayron, Ohio. An Australian who studied in London and was CEO […]

Matthew Feargrieve, a lawyer who assaulted an underwear designer who was trying to climb into the neighbouring seat at the opera in March 2019, has been suspended for 12 months by the Bar Standards Board. […]

The German town of Heimbach has named a road bridge to its power station in honour of the late Lars Vogt, founder of its music festival. Vogt, who died of cancer in September 2022, initiated […]