Sir Jeffrey was knighted six weeks ago for his services to British music overseas The respected classical conductor Sir Jeffrey Tate has died at the age of 74, his agency has confirmed. Sir ...

Temirkanov had made his British debut in 1972 conducting the Royal Liverpool ... appointed the orchestra’s principal guest conductor and from 1992 to 1998 was their principal conductor.

Anna-Maria Helsing has gained an outstanding reputation with leading Scandinavian orchestras and opera houses with her special affinity for the sound and style of modernism and contemporary music.

Born in Yorkshire, Ryan Wigglesworth has been the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor since September 2022. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Hallé Orchestra (2015–18 ...

Following a campaign in association with the Musicians Union to have their pay restored to pre-pandemic levels, musicians in the Royal Opera House Orchestra have accepted a ‘significantly improved’ ...

Britain has world-class opera companies in the Royal Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and Opera North, not to mention the celebrated country-house festival at ...

Edward Gardner OBE is an English conductor, who became principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2021. Gardner was born in Gloucester in 1974, and was a chorister at Gloucester ...

The King enjoyed a performance by the Royal Ballet so much that he “could not stop tapping his feet under the seat” as he was impressed by the show’s energy. Charles and the Queen visited ...

Marin Alsop is an acclaimed conductor. She has conducted most of the leading U.S. orchestras and many of the most distinguished European orchestras. Born in New York on October 16th, 1956, Alsop ...

Handel and his librettist Thomas Morell in their oratorio about Jephtha’s rash promise are equivocal about the filicide, to say the least, and Royal Opera director Oliver Mears goes further in ...

The parade of guest conductors this year at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra continued Nov. 10 with Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno in an eclectic program. It turned out to be both thoughtful ...

Yuri Temirkanov, who has died aged 84, was a Russian conductor known for his old-school approach both to music-making and women; he drew rich, romantic sounds from orchestras in Britain, America ...