Classical music & opera
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Verdi’s La Traviata reimagined with cast and orchestra wearing face masks
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Never to Forget, recorded remotely by the London Symphony Chorus, honours the first 122 health and care staff to have lost their lives to Covid-19
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Led, masked and alone, to an underground lair below the Bavarian State Opera house, our writer joined a tiny handful of others for a thrilling chamber concert. Now the company is reclaiming its stage
People
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The pianist on how his Twitter concerts became an internet sensation, his fears for the future of live music – and life in lockdown Berlin
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The US-born musician, 38, will take up the role at the London Philharmonic in September
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From Kubrick to Aphex Twin, Lynch to Radiohead, the Polish composer’s otherworldly sounds have inspired musicians and soundtracked some of cinema’s most haunting moments
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Picasso wrote: ‘Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.’ But do you know how much the two are interlinked?
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Musicians and performing groups face a bleak future as the coronavirus shutdown has meant earnings evaporated overnight. Will the industry ever recover?
Guides
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Tom Service introduces 50 composers from the contemporary classical music scene
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Tom Service's survey of the 50 symphonies that changed classical music
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