Argentine-born conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, KBE, has canceled his musical engagements for the coming months due to health issues, it was reported Wednesday. “I have lived my whole ...

The first piece, "Tropical Night", is a nocturne with fragments of dance rhythms. The second piece, “Butantan,” depicts Instituto Butantan, a snake research institute that Respighi visited in São ...

The night Syria’s President Bashar Assad fell, Israel blitzed into a decades-old buffer zone between the two warring nations, seizing territory that many residents believe marks the beginning of a new ...

Edward Elgar was a man of many passions; this week, Donald Macleod explores five of the composer’s greatest loves. As a boy, Elgar had enjoyed skipping school to explore the countryside, and ...

The latest news and pictures of Prince Daniel of Sweden. Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, is the husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. Their wedding took place on 19 June 2010 in ...

Directed by Christopher Nupen 1970 was the 200th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth and, to mark the occasion, Daniel Barenboim and Christopher Nupen collaborated on a thirteen-part series ...

Seiffert was the recipient of several prestigious awards, including Echo Klassik’s “Singer of the Year 1989” and a Grammy Award in the category Best Opera Recording for the “Tannhäuser” interpretation ...

The Festtage ("festival days") at the Berlin State Opera are an opera festival created in 1996 by the opera's general music director Daniel Barenboim. Since its creation, the festival has offered ...