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The Bayreuth festival has announced plans to go live on the internet. For the final season under Wagner's grandson Wolfgang, Bayreuth is planning to stream the opening performance of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg on July 27 to 10,000 subscribers at €49— against around €15 for Met Opera and...

More from Franz Welser-Möst and Cleveland. Kicking off a long-term collaboration between the Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Clinic, "Music and the Brain - a symposium on the brain, music, health and society" will take place in August in Salzburg. Led by Welser-Möst and Dr Ali R Rezai,...

Andrew Litton has extended his contract as artistic director of the Minnesota Orchestra's summer festival - Sommerfest - until 2011. The conductor praised "its energy, its urban setting, its playful programming and adventurous audiences - and the great Minnesota Orchestra musicians". Litton is...

Torre del Lago, the lakeside music venue in Tuscany next to the house where Puccini spent the end of his life, has been completely transformed in an €18m rebuild. The new theatre opened in June with a concert of arias from Edgar, La bohème, Manon Lescaut, SuorAnge/ica and Turandot featuring...

The mezzo on Her dream project, an operetta album As an Austrian, has operetta always been there in your life?

Campion 5 4 Sibelius Violin Concerto Kavakos Lahti SO/ V6nsk6 BIS Sibelius Violin Concerto. Karelia Suite. Belshazzar Feast P Kuusisto /Helsinki P0 / Segerstam Ondine

Critic and self-styled "hatchet man" Joe Queenan dismisses Sir Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur - and eight decades of music -in The Guardian on July 9