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[...] James Levine is to step down as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 2004. The conductor has [...]

[...] arrangement is likely to fuel speculation about moves to find a successor for Levine as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera. He recently stood down as Music Director of the Boston Symphony on [...]

[...] James Levine has pulled out of further performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and his surprise replacement for one of the productions – Das Rheingold – is [...]

[...] medical problems, Levine will continue in his other position as Music Director at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, even conducting upcoming instalments of their Ring cycle in the coming months. [...]

[...] An Afro-American opera singer has reported that she was thrown out of a Vienna taxi two weeks ago in a racially motivated incident. Soprano Angel Joy Blue, who is in the city to [...]

[...] in New York, and his surprise replacement for one of the productions – Das Rheingold – is Fabio Luisi. It is a surprise for two reasons: firstly, Luisi is not known as a Wagner specialist, [...]

[...] Press coverage for Anna Nicole, the new work by Mark Anthony Turnage and Richard Jones that premièred at the Royal Opera House [...]

[...] James Levine is to step down as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 2004. The conductor has suffered a series of medical [...]

[...] Director of the Metropolitan Opera. He recently stood down as Music Director of the Boston Symphony on health grounds, and he has also cancelled the majority of his planned appearances [...]

[...] a concert series with the New York Philharmonic, as well as a memorial concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in tribute to the orchestra's former manager Ernest Fleischmann. [...]

[...] The maverick independent film maker Jim Jarmusch has announced that he is working on his first opera, a work about the electrical engineer [...]

The Italian composer or Sicilian birth Aldo Clementi has died at the age of 86. Clementi was the last surviving member of the generation of influenti [...]