World

Musicians honour Syrian world heritage site with performance in Italy

In 2015, ISIS ravaged the Syrian archeological site of Palmyra. Five years on, Italian conductor Riccardo Muti leads a concert honouring the UNESCO World Heritage site.

6 July 2020

World News

In pictures: the best images from this week's news stories

Here is our selection of the most eyecatching photographs that made the news this week

26 June 2020

Earth News

Barcelona opera house opens with concert exclusively for plants

Organisers even printed tickets for each of the plants who attended the event.

23 June 2020

Poland

Grammy award-winning Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki dies at 86

Polish culture "has suffered a great and irreparable loss", the country's culture minister said on Sunday.

29 March 2020

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Opera singer serenades her quarantined father from outside his home

An Israeli opera singer brought comfort to her quarantined father on Sunday by serenading him outside his apartment in Tel Aviv.

23 March 2020

Musica

La Scala premiers Rossini's Il Turco in Italia

The opera is a tragi-comedy of love, lust and mistaken identity

27 February 2020

World

Abu Dhabi celebrates 250 years of Beethoven with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra

The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra performance brought crowds together in Abu Dhabi to celebrate the 250th birthday of German composer and pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven.

14 February 2020

Musica

Anoushka Shankar's mesmerising musical journey

Sitar-virtuoso Anoushka Shankar performs the concerto Raga-Mala, composed by her father Ravi Shankar, the most famous Indian musician of the 20th century at Lyon's Auditorium, accompanied by the Orchestre National de Lyon.

13 February 2020

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Forget politics and bureaucracy. Having a stronger cultural indentity will unite the EU ǀ View

The current mobilisation of right-wing protests against the Establishment, against the bureaucracy of the EU, and against immigration and acceptance of war refugees in Europe, is fed by two interrelated sources: national identity and cultural identity.

10 February 2020

Earth News

The robot who just conducted a human symphony orchestra

Do artifical intelligence and music go together?

7 February 2020

Musica

Der Messias: Robert Wilson stages Mozart's oratorio in Salzburg

Der Messias which premiered in Mozart Week in Salzburg in a production staged by American director and visual artist Robert Wilson, known as the 'master of minimalism'

30 January 2020

Musica

Vienna Philharmonic marches to its own tune

The 178-year-old Vienna Philharmonic has played under the baton of some of the world's most famous maestros. But it marches to its own tune.

16 January 2020

Musica

Comedy without the clichés: Don Pasquale charms Zurich

Stage Director Christof Loy has taken a new look at the old classic, ditching the usual clichés to focus instead on the complexity of the characters.

26 December 2019

Musica

Bellini's Pirata: a tale of love, betrayal and madness

Betrayal, despair and madness combine in an unforgettable production of Bellini’s rarely staged masterpiece Il Pirata at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

12 December 2019

Musica

Korngold’s mysterious opera “Die Tote Stadt” mixes Hitchcock and Freud

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was just 23 years old when he wrote the technically difficult opera - before he knew the limits of the voice, resulting in incredible changes of harmony and rhythm and a "crazy maze of different styles.”

28 November 2019

Musica

From Wagner to Broadway: Terfel takes Sydney Opera by storm

The acclaimed bass-baritone Bryn Terfel is joined at the iconic Sydney Opera House by his wife, harpist Hannah Stone to perform great classics, from Wagner to Broadway.

14 November 2019

Musica

Time with the best: Vienna Philharmonic's mastery passed to Peruvian protégés

“Sinfonía por el Perú” is a project created eight years ago by Tenor Juan Diego Flórez which offers free music education to disadvantaged children. Fifty of the young group traveled to Saltzburg to learn from the best. Watch the Musica programme to see how they got on.

31 October 2019

Cult

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra opens Bucharest's George Enescu festival

The concert halls in Bucharest will see over 2,500 musicians of 50 nationalities go on stage for 84 concerts and recitals

11 September 2019

Musica

The power of music: Juan Diego Flórez gives hope to disadvantaged children in Peru

Juan Diego Flórez is proving that music can be a life changer for the poorest and most disadvantaged kids.

5 September 2019

Musica

Gustavo Dudamel electrifies the Rencontres Musicales d'Évian festival

The inspirational conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the festival's specially-created orchestra gave a passionate performance of Brahms' 4th symphony at the grand finale.

25 July 2019