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Simon Rattle revisits Debussy’s opera with a semi-staging by Peter Sellars and a well-chosen cast
World’s most prestigious classical music job remains available after disagreements among musicians
An enthralling start to a journey through Sibelius’s symphonies
Opera iconoclast who deployed discord as a creative catalyst
Busé’s film examines all periods of Celi’s life while Schmidt-Garre focuses exclusively on the conductor in his dotage
Dresden’s Staatskapelle gives a near-perfect rendition of Wagner’s score, only to be let down by Michael Shulz’s hotch-potch staging
A round-up of the finest recordings of Wagner’s ‘Ring’, as the opera world prepares to celebrate the composer’s bicentenary next year
The idea behind period performance has always seemed quite odd, and in a way touchingly romantic, and not really historical at all
Probing 70-minute film reveals unexpected nuggets about the elusive conductor without equal
Anne-Sophie Mutter is a patron of new music – as well as an accomplished performer of 19th-century repertoire
Norio Ohga was credited with turning Sony into a global group
Conductors, business leaders and politicians seem to agree that leadership means nothing without the group’s willingness to collaborate
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