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Kultur und Europa sind miteinander verflochten und umso stärker in dieser engen Verbindung. Die persönlichen Ziele von UK-Politikern dürfen uns nicht vom Festland und dem reichen kulturellen Austausch trennen, den wir derzeit genießen.

Reisen erweitert den Horizont. Und es öffnet die Ohren. Jahrelang war ich zufrieden mit Konzerten in London... bis ich andere Konzertsäle gehört habe.

Ein aufgebrachtes Publikum unterbrach am letzten Wochenende lautstark ein Kölner Konzert und warf die Frage auf, ob wir unsere Ohren und unseren Geist dem Unbekannten verschlossen haben.

Gestern trat Benjamin Millepied als Direktor des Pariser Opernballetts zurück und warf damit die Frage auf: kann der Direktor einer großen, internationalen Kompanie den Spagat zwischen einer Führungsrolle und dem Wunsch nach kreativer Arbeit schaffen?

Ein Flattern der Finger, ein Wirbel des Zahnstocher-Taktstocks, und er war weg... Verdient Valery Gerviev die Kritik zu seiner LSO-Amtszeit also wirklich?

When the threat of Covid-19 to music touring subsides, the bureaucratic nightmare that is Brexit will remain. The government must act to cut the red tape it has created.

Depuis le 1er janvier 2021, le Brexit s'est transformé en inévitable réalité et ce n'est pas sans conséquences pour les relations musicales franco-anglaises, ce qui attristerait sans doute Berlioz.

2021 ne commence pas sur les chapeaux de roues. Un peu plus d’un an après l’apparition du Covid-19, le secteur culturel souffre toujours des approximations et autres décisions absurdes au sommet de l'État.

Many arts leaders have shared their thoughts with us over this pandemic year. Here are some reflections on what's happened and what's coming up.

As a streaming platform, how do you stand out in such a competitive market? What do you offer audiences beyond pointing cameras and microphones at musicians in an empty room? 

Alors que l'institution s'apprête à célébrer le trentième anniversaire de son installation à La Villette, Tristan Labouret revient sur son rôle phare, les secrets qu'elle renferme et les défis qui l'attendent.

Confinement, gestes barrière, couvre-feu, reconfinement... Les épreuves se succèdent pour un monde du spectacle vivant qui, pourtant, garde la tête haute et multiplie les miracles.

Klaus Mäkelä, Cristian Măcelaru, Lars Vogt, Ben Glassberg, Debora Waldman, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider sont autant de nouveaux visages en 2020 dans le paysage des directeurs musicaux en France. Pour un changement d'ère ?

A personal reflection on the world of streaming through lockdown... and how the attitude to free content needs to change. 

Selon un sondage récent, 64% des musiciens britanniques envisageraient un changement de profession. En France, l'absence de considération portée aux artistes de demain peut laisser craindre une semblable crise des vocations.

As our government endeavours to help the arts recover from COVID-19, what should our priorities be? We argue for a rebalancing of the objectives aimed at spreading the arts more widely.

Audiences are telling us now is not the time to be dark. We should listen to them.

Stripped of its ability to earn revenue, large swathes of the performing arts industries could be wiped out within six months. The silence from the UK government is deafening.

The loss of revenue from ticket sales and touring has put most British orchestras into a parlous financial situation. The Director of the ABO discusses what has been done and what is needed.

Se ha marchado una de las grandes divas de la danza clásica, Alicia Alonso, dejando tras de sí un inmenso legado. Dedicamos estas líneas a su figura.

Jason Cady, artistic director of Experiments in Opera and opera composer writes about all the exciting paths opera is taking nowadays.

Mitchell says he has an irrational fear of opera. We'd love to help him out of it...

The words come first: Mark Wigglesworth, former Music Director of English National Opera, puts the case for singing opera in English.

In the fantasy world of the people drafting the GDPR, businesses would change their ways to impose self-restraint in the use of personal data and draft clear, straightforward notices. Here's what actually happened.

They’re being beastly on Twitter! David Karlin offers some thoughts on why and whether we should be worried and how to react.

Google “virtuoso pianist” and the image search results will throw up pictures of Richter, Brendel, Rubenstein, Horowitz, Argerich, Arrau, Rachmaninov, Liszt, Ashkenazy, Barenboim, Lang Lang, Yuja Wang, Trifonov, Pollini, Cziffra, Gould, Kissin, Uchida, Hough, Pires, Ogdon, Schiff, Cliburn, Hamelin, Schnabel, Cortot, Horowitz, Hess, von Bulow, Andsnes...

David argues that typical UK concert times are almost guaranteed to put off the under 55 age group, especially those with kids.

Many composers enjoyed a drop of the hard stuff. But why do classical music venues allow audiences to indulge during concerts?

I knew Martha Argerich’s Prom with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra would be long sold out, but the intrepid ticket ninja in me hoped that a return may have sprung up on the website. It was then I stumbled upon this year’s wheeze.

14% of our users have ad blockers installed, but everyone still wants to use the site free. The money has to come from somewhere, so how should we respond?

When is opera not opera? When companies wheel out a musical...

L'apport de Pierre Boulez au monde musical est immense. Prenons la mesure du bénéfice de son existence.