It took 14 years and 1.5 billion Euros to rebuild the Cologne Opera House, leaving it looking even ghastlier than before. Last month’s opening production of Der Rosenkavalier was uniformly hooted as a ...

The Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit, widely accused of sexual aggression but never prosecuted, turns 90 tomorrow. Dutoit was fired as principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for ...

The dauntlessly active Hilary Davan Wetton will retire next year as music director in Milton Keynes. He will be 83. He says: ‘It will indeed be the end of an era. I approach it with mixed feelings, ...

We hear that the University of Nottingham has decided to close its Department of Music. The faculty has been functioning for more than one hundred years. The decision is part of the University’s ...

It has been announced that Esa-Pekka Salonen will provide ‘mentorship, professional experience and artistic development opportunities’ to young conductors at his positions in Paris and Los Angeles.

The plight of musicians In the Nashville Symphony is reverberating around the profession. A good orchestra got cancelled last week after a black hole was found in its finances. Last night, it was ...

Lyon Opera has announced the death of its formative director Louis Erlo at the age of 97. Erlo inherited the company from his uncle Paul Camerlo in 1969 and brought it under state patronage. He ran ...

She became one of the most prominent harpsichordists, even though the harpsichord had long been viewed by the communist ...

She had just been made executive director of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society. They fired her on the spot. Now, the lawyers are having a firled day.