Watch: The bells of Notre Dame are ringing again

Dear Alma, I have been a member of an amateur orchestra for a number of years. My standpartner and I are both retired, married, with kids long gone. We have developed a special bond and […]

The Council and Senate of the Weimar University of Music decided last night to close the Institute for Early Music. It’s not just Oxford and Cambridge that have devalued music studies. Weimar is reallocating its […]

The Russian soprano will return to London in Turandot next year, at the instigation of incoming music director Jakub Hrusa. Netrebko has been suspended for three years, since the Putin invasion of Ukraine. Her return […]