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"To receive music you have to open your ears and wait for the music: you must feel that it is something you need...To listen is e...

Once, music existed for its own sake, created by composers and performers to engage the mind and soul. Now it seems that the act of owne...

Design concepts revealed for the new concert hall for London.   Main auditirium will seat 2000 in a wood-lined performance space. not unl...

Fifteen BILLION view between 19th July and 1 September,  and half a billion on one day alone (August 12th). Phenomenal viewing figures b...

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with Chief Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra livestreamed Mahler S...

New horizons for Alan Gilbert, new Chief Conductor  of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester.  This isn't an ordinary move in the game o...

The City of London Corporation has announced that it will fund the completion of the study into a business case for a new, world class c...

Adventurous livestream from the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln with conductor François-Xavier Roth, screened last night on the orchestra's ...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Pierre Boulez  each in their own different ways, transformed  performance practice, and, indeed, the whole way mus...

On the recent incident when an actor turned on a heckler and yelled "You're ruining things for everyone else" ".......

What is the curse of the Lieder Recital? Are the performers feeling unwell (singers "are" their instruments)? Or someone cou...

Opera Europa, in conjunction with arte.tv, has launched an Opera Platform, streaming live opera from all over Europe. The Berlin Phihar...

Fifteen years ago, a US journalist,  John Schaefer, had a good idea. Rather than interview Pierre Boulez, ask him to pick his Top Ten Hit...

Free, and online, on demand internationally - Glyndebourne 2015 productions will be available via the Telegraph from May 24th.  Carmen ,...

Simon Rattle has called for a new concert hall for London. He's right, in principle, because a city as prominent on the internationa...

Imagine an opera house lilke this on the banks of the Thames. It's the home of the Valencia Opera,  designed by Dr Santiago Calatrav...

Michael Kennedy has died, and with him one hopes not, the end of an era when writing about music meant a level of knowledge,  but even mo...

What's happened to Christmas radio and TV? In years past there would be at least something vaguely musical, but this year zilch but ...

Two days ago, veteran director Franco Zeffirelli said he'd sue La Scala for letting his production of Aida go to Astana Opera Theatr...

A famous Premier League Footballer tweets a photo of the Royal Opera House curtain before a performance. The Daily Mail gets wind of it a...