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Here are ten unusual instruments you might not be too familiar with.

The Palau de la Música in Barcelona unfolds a strong programme for 21/22 season featuring some of the best artists from around the world.

The Estonian takes to the Tokyo podium for his final season as Music Director before handing over to Fabio Luisi, who also features prominently in the 2021-22 season. 

The orchestra moves into a new era under its new Principal Conductor.

The LSO announces a robust autumn season as concert life continues to return to the Barbican. 

Maltreated heroines, operatic behemoths, audacious new works: the new opera season awaits in Brussels!

With much of Europe tentatively reopening after the crisis, Zürich Opera and Ballet have announced a typically bold 2021-22 season with new productions, the launch of a new Ring Cycle and the arrival of new General Music Director Gianandrea Noseda. 

Six new productions grace the 2021/22 season in Tokyo, including Rossini’s take on the Cinderella fairytale and a new Meistersinger.

Keep checking here to find out what news is reaching us about classical music events around the world.

Ten unusual takes on the Russian-Soviet composer's music to celebrate the 130th anniversary of his birth.

Clone wars: here's our top five of the best videos of musicians doubling down on their incredible talent.

Severance Hall will stay closed until at least June. In the meantime, we look at the series of concerts that The Cleveland Orchestra is providing on its digital platform, Adella.

Follow us around the world for a digital culture-fest: from Paris to Sydney, here's what you can visit without leaving your home.

Four weekends, four of the world’s greatest orchestras: the Riga Jurmala Festival unveils its 2021 edition.

From renaissance polyphony to contemporary and jazz by way of quartets, Lieder, Arab and Persian music and many other genres, Berlin's beautiful chamber hall seeks to expand your musical frontiers.

With the main focus on Baroque and 20th-century music, Lugano explores the colourful musical palettes of the eras.

After an abrupt end to the season, Jaap van Zweden and his orchestra look forward to a new season fuelled by hope and resilience.

The Singapore 2020-21 season will be the first one to start up post-pandemic (clue to contents: there's Beethoven...)

With five of the symphonies, the Violin concerto and four of the piano concertos, Beethoven lovers aren't going to go short in Hong Kong.

With so many new videos of concerts, opera, ballet, and dance, how to choose? How to plan? Every Friday, our newsletter gives you the answers...