Deepest symphony: Composer searches for lowest voice
04 February 2012 12:00 AM
Hunt on for a bass singer who can hit a low E – a massive three octaves below middle C
'These people have never sung an opera in their lives'
29 January 2012 12:00 AM
Baritone launches attack on lowbrow music industry and performers of classical 'greatest hits'
Brahms piano work found in visitors' book 160 years on
13 January 2012 12:00 AM
An unknown work by the composer Johannes Brahms has come to light after almost 160 years following its chance discovery in a visitor's book, and will be played for the first time next week.
Pay dispute threatens to lower the curtain on opera company
10 January 2012 12:01 AM
New York City Opera locks out musicians and scraps rehearsals a month ahead of new season
BP renews £10m deal with the arts
20 December 2011 12:00 AM
Four of the UK's biggest cultural organisations – the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Opera House and Tate – have announced they are to renew sponsorship deals with BP worth £10m over the next five years despite opposition from environmental campaigners.
David Lister: In a warren of tunnels under Waterloo station, a revolution in classical music is stirring
17 December 2011 12:00 AM
The Week in Arts
Strike threat at New York city opera
03 December 2011 12:00 AM
New York City Opera declared an impasse yesterday in contract negotiations with unions for its singers and musicians, threatening to present its abbreviated season without them.
Katherine Jenkins busks at London Tube station
23 November 2011 05:41 PM
Famous mezzo soprano Katherine Jenkins normally fills concert halls. But today her audience was bemused London commuters passing through Leicester Square tube station, as the singer, in a partial disguise, took a turn as a busker.
The ballad of Rasha and Devorah
08 November 2011 12:00 AM
One is a blind, mentally disabled piano virtuoso from the West Bank, the other a Jewish settler risking the wrath of Israelis to teach her
Bolshoi reopens after six year closure
29 October 2011 02:15 AM
For the first time in six years, the strains of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev rang out from the orchestra pit at the Bolshoi last night, as Russia's most famous theatre reopened after a six-year closure.
Opera House sells off 2,000 costumes
24 September 2011 12:00 AM
London's Royal Opera House (ROH) is attracting worldwide interest ahead of a fundraising sale of 2,000 costumes this weekend.
How the Royal Opera House helped a suburb find its voice
21 September 2011 12:00 AM
Rob Sharp visits a community choir as it takes the stage at Covent Garden
Barenboim coup for Proms in Olympic year
10 September 2011 12:00 AM
Daniel Barenboim, one of the great conductors, will lead an unprecedented series of concerts at next year's BBC Proms to mark the beginning of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
BBC to show edited Proms concert – without the boos
03 September 2011 12:00 AM
The BBC will broadcast a Proms performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra which it was forced to take off air after being interrupted by protesters.
Protesters target Israeli orchestra
02 September 2011 09:54 AM
A Proms performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was taken off air after it was repeatedly interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters, the BBC said.
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