Booing at the Met? How the NY Met's new production of Tosca raised voices in the audience.
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Change of conductor (Welser-Most for Harnoncourt), change of programme (symph #98 instead of 97) for tonight's Prom
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How Hitler borrowed an atlas of Poland from Wagner's grandson, as recounted by Richard Brooks in The Times
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BBC/ENO initiative to get the UK singing the Hallelujah Chorus. Links in with BBC series and ENO Messiah production
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Don't breathe too deeply: La Scala Milan closes top tier of seats in order to remove asbestos found in the roofing.
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RT @edintfest: A HUGE giveaway of up to 100 tickets for Gate | Friel preview performances! Closes 5pm.
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Charlotte Higgins, in the Guardian, on why it's becoming more dangerous to be an opera singer
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Recession still biting: Minnesota Orchestra makes programme changes to coming season 'for budgetary reasons'.
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London Phiharmonic becomes first UK orchestra with iPhone/iPod app. Follows the example of the NY Philharmonic
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa to retire from the opera stage next year.
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Anna Netrebko pulls out of NY Met Traviata because 'she might not be as effective ... as she was in the DVD release'
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Just launched: new event to look forward to in November: the Wimbledon Music Festival. No tennis, but lots of music!
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A real Tweet? The Twitter opera which Covent Garden is planning for the autumn.
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More on the Mozart 'missing links' - the two newly discovered pieces performed for the first time yesterday
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New biennial Int'l Piano Competition launched in Sussex, UK. Will offer engagements, prizes to winner.
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Remaking a Mozart instrument: the keyed glockenspiel (or glass harmonica) from Magic Flute score is recreated.
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Dissonant music isn't music for monkeys: research shows that chimpanzees prefer consonant music.
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Two 'new' works by Mozart - piano pieces - found by International Mozarteum Foundation. More details to follow
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Lost 1970s documentary on Gustav Holst found by the BBC. Includes interviews with composer's daughter Imogen.
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It was only a matter of time: programme notes via Twitter. National Symphony to Twitter at WolfTrap concert, July 30
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