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Dark, whimsical, and macabre, Netflix’s Wednesday has returned for a second season. Full of gothic charm, it is also filled ...
Opera houses aren’t just places to listen to the world’s most beautiful music – they are also some of the world’s most ...
Williams first met Ax in 1994 in the very venue this new concerto was premiered. In 2022, Ax read a New York Times article ...
During the study, participants who were exposed to jazz, rap and rock music at mealtimes chose unhealthier, more calorific ...
The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO) has pulled its 2026 production of Puccini’s Tosca in Israel following backlash from staff.
Anna Lapwood – the outgoing Director of Music at Pembroke College Cambridge and now the first official organist of the Royal ...
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer spoke to Classic FM’s Dan Walker about the role of music in the UK curriculum, the life skills students can gain from a musical education, and his own relationship with ...
He’s up there with John Williams as the best-known film composer in the world. But what are Hans Zimmer’s greatest ...
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Siberian-born Maxim Vengerov is one of the greatest violinists in the world today, acclaimed for his concerts, award-winning recordings and humanitarian work. As he turns 40, here are 10 facts about ...
The story of how Mozart met his wife, Constanze, and how she appeared in one of his greatest operas. The ever-travelling Weber family — last seen in Munich, and now minus the departed Fridolin — had, ...
Nobody on record has managed to stand in the world’s quietest room for a whole hour. In 2015, Microsoft built the quietest place on earth. But while it may sound like a sanctuary of meditative bliss, ...