Classical News

Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines.

Though they haven't faced too many annoying questions yet, there's one question the Montreal-based band Plumes is tired of people asking them: Where did they get their name? "This is only the second interview that we've done for this tour," said Geof Holbrook of Plumes.

The June issue of Gramophone is on sale now, in which we reveal the Hall of Fame 2013 .

Thirty-four-year-old Latvia native Andris Nelsons, seen here with the BSO last summer at Tanglewood, is set to become the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 15th music director.

A couple of years ago, Joshua Smith, principal flute of The Cleveland Orchestra, met Sean Watterson, who had recently returned to his hometown of Cleveland after a career in international finance.

Pianist Miss Dariescu, who last visited Devizes in 2009, will return to give a recital at the town hall on June 18, just two weeks after her Royal Albert Hall debut, playing Beethoven's Emper-or Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Yes folks this is John Barrowman looking absolutely fabulous! The illustrious leader of Torchwood starred as Zaza for La Cage Aux Folles a few years back and he was brillant.

Electric Ladyland was the third and final album by Jim Hendrix which was released in October 1968.

Organizer of the concert of the world-famous Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe in Yerevan, Vahagn Gevorgyan denied information about the singer's planned performance in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, Novosti-Armenia reported.

EVERY colour in the rainbow is set to burst onto the Palace Theatre stage in Andrew Lloyd-Webber's smash hit production, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Le Poisson Rouge celebrates its fifth anniversary June 7-16 with LPR X 5, a series of specially curated concerts that exemplify the venue's commitment to diverse musical programming.

Dorothea Roschmann and Malin Christensson in Los Angeles Philharmonic Association's "The Marriage of Figaro." Photo by Mathew Imaging As "The Marriage of Figaro" opens, the clever factotum is carefully measuring his nuptial bed to see if it will fit in the small room that he and his beloved Susanna will soon occupy as man and wife.

Earl Jarrett, chairman of the JN Foundation , hands a copy of a signed contract to Rosina Moder, executive director of Music Unites Foundation, to provide funding for a two-year initiative to research and document the works and life of Jamaican composers of classical and patriotic music, as well as composers of church, dance and theatre music.

The University City Symphony Orchestra , under the direction of Maestro Leon Burke III, held its final concert of the 2012-13 season Sunday at All Saints Church in University City.

Back in 1973 Stephen Sondheim wrote a song for a Broadway play he titled Send in The Clowns.

During the winter months, when tourists and snow birds flock to South Florida, the arts calendar is filled with theater, music and dance performances; but once Passover and Easter pass, a little culture can be scarce.

For hundreds of thousands of Streisand fans, many of whom were Friends of Dorothy, "Classical Barbra" was the album that first introduced them to the songs of Faure, Debussy, Schumann and Wolf.

The 66-year-old from Woolston is proof of just how crucial new discoveries and breakthroughs are to helping save lives, having taken part in a clinical trial that saw her receive pioneering treatment to beat the disease despite the odds being against her.

Paris's Theatre du Chatelet recently presented Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine 's Pulitzer Prize-winning SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, starring Julian Ovenden , and the production was filmed and broadcast by Mezzo TV.

The soundtrack of Bavo Defurne's second feature film Souvenir is to be composed by the Pink Martini ensemble.