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3rd December: Music’s worth in higher education, massive music broadcasting...
Guardian Music in higher education: What is it worth? Education and arts leaders discuss the value of music within the current economically-charged debate on UK education Gramophone Iceland faces...
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13th December: Russia embraces Britten, LSO’s 2014 video games concert & new...
Guardian Glad to be gay: Russia embraces Benjamin Britten’s centenary Russia may be cracking down on homosexuality, but Moscow can’t get enough of Benjamin Britten. The Guardian reports on a major...
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24th December: Classical Christmas roundups, ENO income is up & the PRS &...
Classical Music Magazine PRS for Music Foundation and British Council announce Musicians in Residence ‒ China The Performing Rights Society for Music Foundation and British Council’s Musicians In...
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20th February: Radiohead’s Greenwood talks classical, Olympic gold winner...
NME Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood Q&A – Blending Classical Music With Rock Jonny Greenwood is playing Wapping Hydraulic Power Station this Sunday (February 23) with London Contemporary Orchestra...
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Fourth Monkey Theatre Company return to Trinity Buoy Wharf
Trinity Buoy Wharf is pleased to announce the return of Fourth Monkey Theatre Company for a second year, who will perform three site-specific productions from 9th April to 3rd May 2014. Based in...
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2nd April: Royal Opera House to retire La Boheme after 41 years, two headed...
The Guardian La Bohème production faces final curtain at Covent Garden after 41 years By the end of next year it will have been performed at Covent Garden 404 times and featured in 27 seasons but, the...
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10th April: Vienna Philharmonic win Birgit Nilsson Prize, Birmingham...
The Telegraph Vienna Philharmonic: worthy winner of the Birgit Nilsson Prize It’s time to set the record straight on the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the deserving winner of opera’s richest prize,...
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14th April: Humour in classical music, higher standards for music GCSEs and...
The Telegraph Classical music, funny? Surely you’re joking… Ivan Hewett explains how classical music often contains more wit and humour than we give it credit for. The Guardian The story behind the...
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1st May: English National Opera to branch out into musical theatre, Richard...
Classical Music Magazine English National Opera to branch out into musical theatre English National Opera ENO has announced it will be opening its doors to the world of musical theatre as part of...
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20th August: final talks at MET Opera, review of Young Euro Classic 2014,...
Classical News The New York Times Metropolitan Opera Clears Last Hurdle in Labor Talks The Metropolitan Opera and the union representing its stage hands reached a contract deal early Wednesday morning....
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12th November: Venezuela’s El Sistema music scheme is ‘model of tyranny’, ENO...
Classical News Guardian Venezuela’s El Sistema music scheme is ‘model of tyranny’, UK academic says Supporters rush to defend ‘beacon of social justice’ as study shows project fails to reach...
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14th November: The world’s fastest-playing pianist, James Horner: How I wrote...
Classical News Telegraph Watch: the world’s fastest-playing pianist Ukrainian Lubomyr Melnyk claims that he plays 19.5 piano notes on each hand every second Classic FM How I wrote… Pas de Deux – James...
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11th December: ENO Arts Council Cuts: 10 of the strangest Messiahs: Patrick...
Classical News WildKat PR The Berkeley Ensemble’s New Cobbett Prize for Composition 2014 has a winner! The Berkeley Ensemble and the panel of judges for the New Cobbett Prize for Composition are...
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15th January: 2015 Opera Awards, Michael Kennedy Obituary, Philharmonie de...
Classical News The Guardian ENO strongly represented on new International Opera awards shortlist The only UK company on the shortlist for opera company of the year, elsewhere nominees include US mezzo...
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21st January: Martyn Rose to step down from funding-hit ENO, Alexander...
Classical News Guardian A very brief guide to the world’s first ‘mindfulness opera’ Lost in Thought aims to ‘stretch the boundaries of what opera can be’, which seemingly includes ‘a yoga session’...
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22nd January: Harry Brunjes as ENO Chairman, Violinist Fenella Barton on...
Classical News The Guardian Harry Brunjes to replace Martyn Rose as ENO chairman Brunjes will remain in the role until a permanent replacement can be found BBC Music Magazine Join us at the BBC Music...
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26th January: UK’s orchestras to get tax relief, WDR 3 Jazzfest, scandal at...
Classical News Guardian UK’s orchestras to get tax relief The measure, aimed to encourage performances across the UK, brings British orchestras in line with theatre and film industries Telegraph The...
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27th January: LSO’s needs a new hall to lure Rattle, ENO battles another...
Classical News The Times LSO needs a new hall to lure Rattle The London Symphony Orchestra’s illustrious conductor’s podium looks set to welcome a homecoming star in Sir Simon Rattle, although he may...
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30th January: Modest good news for music education, drama at the opera as...
Classical News Guardian Modest good news for music education as government stick to their word Hubs funding is to increase, but Arts Council England chief Darren Henley has a fight on his hands if he...
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2nd February: Conductor Israel Yinon dies after collapsing onstage, Tom...
Classical News Guardian The crisis at the Coliseum is just part of our national opera’s malaise Once the ENO stood for something. Now the artform no longer feels as if it speaks to its audience...
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