Classical music & opera
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Its great aria Nessun Dorma is one of opera’s most famous, but there’s much more to Puccini’s complex final work. Antonio Pappano explains why it has taken him three decades to conduct it
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‘I was swallowing the piano whole’Stephen Hough on life as a prodigy – and playing for Jimmy SavileIn an extract from his new childhood memoir, the great concert pianist recalls falling in love with the instrument, pestering his parents for lessons … and the deception on Jim’ll Fix It
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Regarded as one of the world’s best soloists, Gringolts remains in exile after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now in Australia, he talks about speaking out where other performers have stayed silent
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He’s been on the podium with the world’s leading orchestras but, he says, his new parallel career flying for Air France has taught him things he never learned in 30 years of music making
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In an edited extract from his speech at the 2023 Royal Philharmonic awards, its chairman urges joined up thinking to ensure a healthy future for an art form that is central to the wellbeing and prosperity of our national life
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The Bafta-winning film has helped increase visibility of women in conducting, but I long for the day when my presence on the podium won’t be remarked on
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Investment will sustain its work in London for another year after ENO was removed from ACE’s national portfolio
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Tom Service introduces 50 composers from the contemporary classical music scene
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