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The orchestra has made one change to tonight’s midsummernight concert, reflecting national mourning for victims of this week’s Graz school shooting. The one work to be dropped is Jacques Offenbach’s Can Can. Other jollies like […]

The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival has named ‘trans, queer’ Sarah Hennies as this year’s composer in residence, affirming its hard-won fringe status. From a recent profile: Sarah Hennies is a minimalist composer who focuses on […]

 L’heure espagnole & Gianni Schicchi Palau de les Arts’s new production of this double bill is directed by the Belgian/French duo of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier. Since their debut at Covent Garden in 2001, […]

West Edge Opera of California are putting on a new opera about Dolores Huerta of the Democratic Socialists of America, leader of the five-year 1960s grape strike. She coined the slogan, ‘Si se puede – […]

The death has been announced of Russia’s foremost chorusmaster, founder of the Moscow Chorus Theatre, Boris Pevzner. The theatre said: ‘The entire staff of the Moscow Choral Theatre is deeply shocked by this irreparable loss.We […]

Daniele Gatti, pased over by La Scala for the Korean Myung Whun Chung, was announced this morning as music director of the Maggio Musicale theatre in Florence. He starts next year and and will remain […]

The pianist has been telling a Tokyo press conference how much she learned about cultural exchange by performing with Japanese Noh actor and national treasure, Bunzo Otsuki. He said: ‘ I was able to act […]

The President of the Kennedy Center has offered his artistic credentials in a podcast with a New York Post columnist. ‘I played, like very short periods of time, the flute,’ he said. ‘Do you believe […]

We hear that Wasfi Kani at Grange Park Opera has engaged the orchestra of English National Opera for her forthcoming Ring cycle, which opens next summer with Rheingold. This is a brilliant swoop, employing an […]

The President and his wife Melania, accompanied by the V-P couple, were gretted with mixed boos and cheers last night on turning up for the musical Les Miserables. Nothing much more to report, except this […]