Royal Opera House to join the #MeToo era as it challenges misogyny on stage by asking: 'Does opera hate women?'

From its outdated cliche of the “fat lady sings” to the graphic sexual violence sometime meted out on stage, the world of opera has not always been the most ...

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Artists We Lost in 2018, in Their Words

sQuotes from notable actors, musicians, writers and dancers who made us laugh and cry and look at the world in new, myriad ways.

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BBC World Service - Newsday, How opera saved me after war

The German opera company Zukunft Kultur - or Future Culture - encourages asylum seekers to appear in their opera productions, such as Carmen, Orfeo,

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Why do so many choirs exclude women? It's time for this outdated practice to change

We all love the soaring harmonies of a full chorus at Christmas, but many choral institutions still don't let women sing.

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Silent Night was first performed in public 200 years ago today, and is now cherished around the world

It might have been the trauma that followed the Napoleonic Wars, or the famine caused by the 1816 European crop failures.

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Tragic teenagers killed in crash with suspected drink driver named as talented young musicians

Alex Ross died along with Siân Chambers in the accident in the early hours of Saturday. Both were 19 years old and were double bassists with the Lincolnshire Youth Symphony Orchestra

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Italy violin makers rush to save damaged wood

An unprecedented wave of storms has knocked trees down in Italy's forests and artisans are racing to salvage the valuable wood before it rots. ...

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This £5.5million classical music venue is opening in Coventry

The building has remained empty and unused for the past 20 years.

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South African musician plays guitar during brain surgery -

His skull still open, a South African musician with a brain tumor played several notes on his guitar during a successful operation

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Opera star who fled war in Lebanon set to make Australian debut

Lebanese-Canadian soprano Joyce el-Khoury has been compared to one of the most influential opera singers of the 20th century.

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The opera singer who wants his front teeth for Christmas

Tenor Taylor Fawcett lost his three front teeth after a freak fainting spell.

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The solo you only know you're singing seconds before

The choirboys at King's College Chapel in Cambridge have a more nerve-wracking Christmas than most.

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Appalachian cellist ditches the van, to pedal against climate change

Growing up close to the famous Appalachian Mountains, in the United States, made musician Ben Sollee appreciate natural beauty,

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BBC World Service - Newshour, Siege of Sarajevo: The orchestra that played in the midst of war

Correspondent Allan Little recalls hearing the eerie sound of Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor in the rubble-strewn streets of Sarajevo.

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The Violinist Who Was Hand-Picked For the Billion-Dollar Ambani Wedding

This December month, Mumbai stood witness to a lavish wedding ceremony that was taken ...

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Tan Dun Named Dean Of Bard College Conservatory Of Music

Bard College announces the appointment of world-renowned composer, conductor, and artist Tan Dun as Dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

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Sydney Symphony Orchestra returns controversial grant

Sydney Symphony Orchestra has handed back a million-dollar one-off grant it received from the NSW government, part of which had been controversially stripped from an arts funding round for small to medium-sized arts organisations.

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Musician reunited with stolen violin after burglar tries to flog it in Paris

Daniel Chandler's beloved violin is home for Christmas – a year after thieves took the instrument during a raid on his Hampstead home. With help from musicalchairs!!

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Ex-banker to launch fund focused on vintage string instruments

A FORMER Frankfurt banker is carving out a niche in the small but potentially lucrative world of investing in vintage string instruments.

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Helensburgh entrepreneur creates new opera scholarship

A HELENSBURGH-based hospitality entrepreneur is to further his long-standing association with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS)

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Islington Council bans famous jazz musician accused of antisemitism from performing with The Blockheads

Islington Council has stopped a famous jazz musician from performing on the basis it “might harm” relationships with the borough's Jewish community

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Teacher charged with stealing $750 violin from student to pay parking fine

From teacher to criminal: here's how a student's musical instrument got caught up in the midst of a school scandal.

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Push for national orchestra a logistical nightmare, says CEO of CT Philharmonic

The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's CEO explains the potential impact of losing government funding to a national formation.

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The Florida Orchestra announces new CEO

The Florida Orchestra announces new CEO  St Pete CatalystMark Cantrell, currently the CEO of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, has been named the new CEO and president of the Florida Orchestra, effective Feb. 14.

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Scottish trumpeter becomes new chief of Royal Scottish National Orchestra

A STAR Scottish trumpeter is to be the new chief executive of the country's national orchestra.

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John Rutter: The Importance of Choir

John Rutter: Interview with JW Pepper https://johnrutter.com

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BBC Proms announces the launch of BBC Proms Japan

The BBC Proms has announced that it will be adding Japan to its growing list of international tours, following Australia in 2016 and Dubai in 2017.

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Future - The musical geniuses that cannot hear

Artificial intelligence is being used by musicians to help compose melodies, write lyrics and even perform.

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Google's latest AI experiment lets you conduct an orchestra in your browser

Semi-Conductor uses machine learning to interpret the wild flailing of your limbs in real time.

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Meets With Musicians Over Contracts - WAMU 88.5

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Meets With Musicians Over Contracts  WAMU 88.5Members and management are at odds over a proposal that would cut pay and benefits.

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English National Opera to give free tickets to under 18s

Balcony tickets will be made available on Saturdays as a way of engaging young people in opera.

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Violinist leaving LA Philharmonic to take his music to the streets

Violinist Vijay Gupta, who recently won a MacArthur fellowship, is giving up his seat in the Los Angeles Philharmonic to develop his nonprofit Street Symphony, which performs for free.

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Tenor David Lewis jailed for child sex crimes

The former Opera Australia chorus member has been sentenced to three years in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

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Three Icelanders Named on New York Times' List of 'Top 25 Classical Music Tracks'

Three Icelandic composers have made the New York Times' list of Top 25 Classical Music Tracks for 2018.

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At A Special Show, Three Deaf Musicians Want You To Hear Them Roar

Rapper Sean Forbes and percussionist Evelyn Glennie tell NPR's Scott Simon about their performance with the Detroit Philharmonic

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Violinist's Victims: UM Has a Decades-Long Creepy Music Professor Problem

Until last Friday, Stephen Barnett Shipps was chairman of stringed instrument instruction at the University of Michigan.

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Ottawa tuba players help set world record - The Ottawa Herald

Ottawa tuba players help set world record  The Ottawa HeraldHide caption. Ottawa middle and high school student from left, Keaton Stone, Gabe Hazen, Juan Howard, Brandi Darr, Elijah Baskett, Ainsley Curry, Braydon ...

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A star flutist is paid $64,451 less than her male counterpart. So she’s suing.

by The Washington Post’s National Arts Reporter Geoff Edgers

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Popular musicians have been stealing from classical music for ever (pay wall)

Where do pop musicians get some of their best tunes?

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Seattle Opera debuts its new $60M headquarters

Seattle Opera's new glass-clad, $60 million headquarters at Seattle Center is designed to draw people into opera

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Can a concert save your life? For one Brookline woman, it may have

Ingrid Christiansen, 89, went into cardiac arrest in the middle of a concert by the chamber music ensemble Mistral. What happened next was dramatic.

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King's College Choir must accept girls, says famous soprano Lesley Garrett

Celebrated soprano Lesley Garrett has said that King's College Choir must “wake up and listen to the music” with regards to its ongoing exclusion of girls.

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Esa-Pekka Salonen to be San Francisco Symphony's next music director

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s creative team includes an Academy Award-nominated composer, musicians and a robotics expert

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Conductor Osmo Vänskä to exit Minnesota Orchestra when contract expires

At that point, Vänskä, who is 65, will have spent 19 years with the orchestra — matching its two longest-serving music directors.

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George HW Bush: Irish tenor Ronan Tynan sang to dying president

The Irishman who will sing at George HW Bush's funeral also visited him on his deathbed and sang to the former US president just hours before he died.

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Esa-Pekka Salonen to step down as Philharmonia conductor

“He's a terrific orchestral trainer and a brilliantly clear conductor in the Boulez tradition.”

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Orchestra full of recovering addicts hits the high notes

An orchestra full of recovering addicts is hitting the high notes.

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How Finnish conductors put the world's concert halls under their spell (Pay wall)

Why does a Nordic country of only five million produce such exceptional musicians — and can we do the same over here?

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