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There are six new productions in the Met’s 2025/26 season announced today, and two of them are world premieres that the public may struggle to embrace. The rest is led by a tissue of 21 […]

The President of the German Shostakovich Society, Dr Bernd Feuchtner, has died after a prolonged illness, aged 75. A renowned scholar of the Russian composer and his world, he was also Intendent of the Handel […]

Deutsche Oper Berlin has appointed Anna Handler as its Kapellmeister From September. She will conduct 11 operas in her first season. Anna is a former Dudamel Fellow and assistant conductor at the Boston Symphony Prchestra. […]

The death is reported of Christian Holder, star of the Joffrey Company and solo dancer in many productions at San Francisco Opera. He then returned to England, where he won recognition as a writer and […]

The Hungarian composer György Kurtág plays piano on a new Alpha Classics album with baritone Benjamin Appl. He had given one publication interview: Which qualities do you look/listen for in a singer in the performance […]

Frédéric Olivieri, director of the corps de ballet at La Scala Milan from 2002-07 and again from 2017-2020, is back – at least for the next two years. He replaces Manuel Legris, who departed with […]

The new big bone at the Gewandhaus orchestra is Polina Tarasenko, 23. She’s from Kherson in Ukraine. Polina was a student of Ian Bousfield at the University of Arts Bern before joining the Mendelssohn Academy […]

Paavo Järvi has cancelled next week’s concerts with the Berlin Staatskapelle due to illness. Chief conductor Christian Thielemann will step in with a different programme. Instead of Sibelius, Korngold and Nielsen, it will be an […]

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Message from the Norwegian artist Leif Ove Andsnes: “It is with mixed emotions that I share with you that this year’s festival will be my last” says founder and artistic director Leif Ove Andsnes. “I […]