"German soprano Anja Harteros has withdrawn from singing the role of Elizabeth of Valois in Don Carlo for the performance on 11 May due to acute tonsillitis. The role of Elizabeth of Valois will now be sung by Armenian soprano Lianna Ha...

Imagine Wagner's Siegfried rewritten by Berlioz. Ernest Reyer's Sigurd, one of those semi-forgotten operas that is performed roughly as often as it deserves, gets a rare outing at the Grand Théâtre de Genève this autumn.  In recent year...

Researchers at King's College London are looking for volunteers to help them develop a mobile app for the Royal Opera House. Applicants have to record their smartphone usage for a week. The reward for participating is free access to pr...

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Not entirely unexpected news from the Royal Opera House: "Anja Harteros has withdrawn from singing the role of Elizabeth of Valois in Don Carlo for the performance on 8 May due to acute tonsillitis." Lianna Haroutounian, already booked f...

Get half price tickets for Rolando at the Royal Festival Hall on 15 May with a Time Out offer. The discount is only valid on the bottom three price bands (no front stalls), and you don't get to pick your seat. Prices after discount run...

Don Carlo - Royal Opera House, 4 May 2013 Jonas Kaufmann wasn't ill; Anja Harteros turned up. Given that she'd marked half her lines at the general rehearsal earlier in the week (every singer's prerogative of course, but rare here) ...

According to the press release.  For medical reasons, Mariss Jansons has had to pull out of the Berlin Philharmonic's next group of concerts: 8, 9 and 10 May 2013 in Berlin, and 12 May in Amsterdam. His replacement is Jaap van Zweden, ...

On BBC4 on Friday 10 May at 7.30pm for one whole hour, Rolando Villazón probes The Genius of Verdi. Let's hope it's as entertaining as his last BBC documentary, What Makes a Great Tenor.

The Staatskapelle Dresden have arranged a memorial concert to honour the late Sir Colin Davis, their conductor laureate. On 9 May, Sir Colin's protege Robin Ticciati will conduct an apposite selection of Elgar, Berlioz and Mozart. All ...