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 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, ...

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 prolific film composer George Fenton has died suddenly at the age of 76. He provided scores for more than 100 films and countless television programmes, among them the signature jingles for BBC ...

The Windsor Festival strings competition, commemorating the festival founder Yehudi Menuhin, was won last night at Eton College by the Canadian violist Emad Zolfaghari, a student at Curtis. Emad ...

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 ...

From a musician in Ecuador: I am a staff musician for the Guayaquil Symphony Orchestra, and I am writing anonymously out of fear of workplace retaliation. On September 25, 2026, institutional ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Tell me they have found a lost concerto by a cherished composer and I’ll be onto it faster than a ferret up a trouser-leg. In the case, it’s a supposed concerto by Alexander Zemlinsky, Mahler’s staff ...

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