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Lufthansa forces soloist to fly with bare violin in her arms.
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For music, it was the worst of years…
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Opera
English National Opera hires an EDI enforcer
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Takacs Quartet loses its cellist
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La Scala is made to pay an usher it fired for shouting ‘Free Palestine’
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Covent Garden issues pure classical Rosalia
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UK’s new chief conductor sets out her credo
Anna Handler, chief conductor of the Ulster Orchestra,…
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Great bass singer is condemned to linger in jail
A a judge at Tbilisi City Court today…
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RCM wins top higher education award
The Royal College of Music in London has…
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Violinist takes charge of US orchestra
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Where’s Lang Lang? With mummies
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Opera
Covent Garden gets trussed up
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Orchestras
Breaking: Anna is UK’s new chief conductor
The Ulster Orchestra has chosen Anna Handler as…
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No music in Zohran Mamdani’s arts team for New York
This is the arts and culture transition committee…
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Opera
Is it an opera house? Does anyone need it?
There is growing opposition in Hamburg to the…
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Where else can you hear all these stars in 2 weeks?
Wigmore Hall,. London, May 2026: Across 14 days,…
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RIP
Paris principal trumpet dies, aged 100
Pierre Pollin, principal trumpet of the National Orchestra…
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Orchestras
Just in: LA Phil cancels youth orchestra cuts
A couple of days after we broke the…
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Opera
Wife-bashing tenor is back playing … Otello
The Korean tenor Alfred Kim achieved his 15…
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Late Pope’s award for podium pontiff
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Lucerne hires Vikingur to curate festival
The new Lucerne Festival regime under Sebastian Nordmann…
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RIP
Messiaen’s ‘true musician’ has died at 98
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Orchestras
A US orchestra is massively in profit
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Barrel-scraping in Deutschland
Every year, Germany chooses a musical instrument to…
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