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Min-Jin Kym 'elated' after stolen 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth £1.2m recovered

Acclaimed musician Min-Jin Kym has talked of her “elation” after the British Transport Police tracked down her Antonio Stradivarius violin, worth £1.2m, following an almost three year search.

Bolshoi dancers have recently played second fiddle to the scandals at the famous Bolshoi Theatre

Bolshoi violinist Viktor Sedov dies after fall from stage

Death comes during a period of high drama for the theatre

Daniel Barenboim will conduct his first Wagner opera in the UK this summer

Proms 2013: Jewish conductor Daniel Barenboim defends performance of anti-Semitic Wagner's Ring cycle

'It is Wagner's greatest misfortune that he became Hitler's favourite composer', says Israeli conductor

Jade Goody died of cervical cancer in 2009

'and the Crowd (wept)': Jade Goody becomes latest celebrity to inspire opera

From the day she burst onto television screens as a Big Brother contestant in 2002, Jade Goody’s life resembled one long soap opera.

Spanish tenor Placido Domingo

Placido Domingo thanks fans for support while in hospital with pulmonary embolism

The tenor thanked well-wishers for the flood of supportive messages

Royal Opera House wins first West End transfer with 'Wind in the Willows'

The Royal Opera House is to follow in the footsteps of the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company with the transfer of a production to London’s West End for the first time.

David Wall pictured in 1984

Ballet dancer David Wall dies of cancer aged 67

He was the Royal Ballet's youngest male principal at 21 and danced with Dame Margot Fonteyn

CD of lullabies by Hayley Westenra to be delivered to mothers who give birth on the same day as Kate

Expectant mothers who give birth on the same day as the Duchess of Cambridge can expect an extra delivery - an album of lullabies by soprano Hayley Westenra.

Presenter of Woman's Hour, Jenni Murray

Jenni Murray to conduct BBC Philharmonic orchestra - despite having no musical training

Woman's Hour presenter Jenni Murray has announced that she will be conducting the BBC Philharmonic orchestra - despite not being able to read music.

Opera singers Angela Gheorghiu, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Anna Netrebk

Starving opera stars need 'beef' to sing says Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

Why do all female classical musicians have to be thin and sexy?

Sergei Polunin dancing Narcisse at Sadler's Wells in March

Ballet’s ‘bad boy’ Sergei Polunin bounds back on to centre stage

Dancer apologises for latest mystery walk-out but says he’s ready to return

Stephen Fry to Ignite his passion for opera at festival

Stephen Fry has been named as the curator of an annual opera festival. The actor and comedian will take the helm at this year’s Deloitte Ignite festival which will explore the work of composers Verdi and Wagner.

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), German composer, conductor, critic and author, circa 1860.

Germany celebrates bicentennial of Richard Wagner

Germany today celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favour with the Nazis.

Australian saxophonist Amy Dickson has hit the top of the UK Classical charts

Chart-topper Amy Dickson reclaims the joy of sax for classical fans

It is the brassy musical upstart, whose siren tone indicates the arrival of a femme fatale. But the saxophone is finally coming of age after an Australian musician topped the classical chart with an album that returns the instrument to its orchestral roots.

The Queen's official composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is undergoing chemotherapy for leukaemia

Queen's composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has leukaemia

The Queen's official composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is undergoing chemotherapy for leukaemia.

 

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