The rising operatic star had just made her Met Opera debut in December. American soprano Rainelle Krause has died at the age of 37. Her family have confirmed that she passed away on 17 March after a ...

See Einaudi live as he plays this sold-out concert at the iconic Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 29 April, complete with indulgent afternoon tea and hotel stay.

Composer Ludwig Göransson has bagged his third Academy Award, winning Best Original Score for Sinners. At age 41, this makes ...

American baritone Josh Groban belted out a parody of ‘Zadok the Priest’ as opera critic Timothée Chalamet applauded in the ...

The judges on TV talent show Britain’s Got Talent were left speechless when a 92-year-old singer announced who she really was. After 70 years, Shani Wallis delivered a jaw-dropping performance of ‘As ...

The 30-year-old actor and star of A Complete Unknown and Marty Supreme told his Interstellar co-star Matthew McConaughey, “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera. Things where it’s like, ‘Hey, ...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, ...

1. A Finn with a French name Born in 1865 with the resolutely Finnish-sounding name of Johan Julius Christian, Sibelius was known early on as Janne to his loved ones. While he was a student he felt ...

To mark International Women’s Day on Classic FM, the superstar mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins OBE will present a special programme to celebrate the most influential women in classical music.

It’s a medieval torture device that was used – once upon a more primitive time – for publicly shaming bad musicians and other disturbers of the peace. The contraption, which is essentially a heavy ...

2. Mozart's first concert and a European tour (1762 - 1765) The young Mozart was, as we know, an early starter when it came to music. But he was especially young to be a concert pianist in 1762, and ...

3. The man behind the Gymnopedies The young Maurice Ravel was captivated by new music coming out of Russia, particularly Rimsky-Korsakov’s. He was also introduced by his father to Erik Satie, pictured ...