He has signed up Juan Diego Flórez and squared up to Erwin Schrott — now, as his recital series reaches its tenth anniversary, City lawyer Ian Rosenblatt tells Petroc Trelawny why funding the arts remains pleasure, not business
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Total of £1.7 million to help combat cancer was raised at a glittering fundraising event attended by leading figures from the worlds of politics, arts and culture... more
Susan Boyle's version of I Dreamed A Dream may have turned her into a global star, but soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa appears less than enthralled.... more
Britain’s Got Talent finalist Faryl Smith will rub shoulders with opera star Bryn Terfel and composer Howard Goodall at this year’s Classical Brits.... more
Forget chalk and cheese, Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky are fire and ice, she the tempestuous soprano, he the upright, occasionally rather stiff baritone... more
A violinist who fled a poor Russian mining town to pursue her dream of studying at London’s best music schools has won the young performer award at this year’s Classical Brits... more
Nicola Benedetti, the former BBC Young Musician of the Year, won the Young British Classical Performer prize at the Classical Brit awards but almost didn't show up at the ceremony.... more
Sir Simon Rattle will conduct all Schumann's symphonies and pianist Alfred Brendel will play his final London concert in the new classical music season at the Southbank Centre... more
Classical music may have suffered from a rather stuffy image in the past but Myleene Klass has done her best to dispel that theory. The former Hear'Say singer stole the show as she arrived to present the nominations for the Classical Brit Awards last night... more
The Royal Opera House's free, open-air screenings of ballet and opera have become essential events. This summer there are a trio of classics to choose from.... more
Our critics introduce the names to watch out for over the next 12 months - the ones you won’t have heard of before, the ones that you’ll suddenly see everywhere – and the one the critics will love best in 2007.... more
They're the new golden couple of opera, and although any romantic linkage between Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon is strenuously denied, few at the Barbican believed it... more
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