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Musical interlude for the more creative electrical engineering students

BRUSH up on your maths, physics, chemistry and Mozart to kick start your career in electrical engineering.

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Date: January 25th, 2012
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As Opera Struggles in West, an Art Form Flourishes in China

Chinese visitors are seen in a hall of the Guangzhou Opera House in April 2010
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As if any more proof was needed of China’s growing dominance, it is now being bellowed at full volume by tenors and sopranos. Chinese composers have become a major source for opera in Europe and North America, while more opera festivals are staged in the People’s Republic than anywhere else. “The future of opera may be in China,” says Tian Hao Jiang, China’s most celebrated operatic export a mainstay at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. “So it’s about time to reverse the trend. Instead of Chinese singers always coming to the West, Western singers are coming to learn Chinese.”

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Date: December 23rd, 2011
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Everything to play for at the Tchaikovsky competition

Winning pianist Daniil Trifonov of Russia performs during the Tchaikovsky.
Photograph: Dmitry Lovetsky/AP

It’s the fiercest, sweatiest, most nerve-shredding competition in the classical world. Tom Service reports from Moscow

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Date: December 21st, 2011
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Venezuela prison orchestra gives hope to inmates

The music project is currently being run in several prisons in Venezuela

The strains of classical music drift on the breeze across the vast concrete yard at Coro prison in western Venezuela.

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Date: December 14th, 2011
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Bolshoi Theatre archives reveal lives of musicians

Branches of a tree in front of the Bolshoi theatre in central Moscow are covered with ice, December 26, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Mikhail Voskresensky

(Reuters) – The death of a tyrant, abduction by the secret police and insight into the minds of some of the greatest composers in history are all part of the details that Russia’s Bolshoi Theater have discovered in the margins of the centuries-old sheet music in its archives.

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Date: December 2nd, 2011
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The classical music world can be obsessed with glitz, celebrity and sex appeal – but not Verbier Festival

Verbier Festival is a glitzy affair

This year’s Verbier Festival – the ultra-classy annual meet of music superstars that happens 1,500m up in the Swiss mountains – has been surreally accident-prone with its turnout of artists. Conductor Charles Dutoit cancelled his opening concert. Thomas Quasthoff cancelled a performance of Elijah. Bryn Terfel substituted for Quasthoff but then lost his voice as a result and cancelled his appearance in a semi-staged Tosca two nights later. For good measure, the advertised Cavaradossi also pulled out. And tonight there should have been a concert with Gidon Kremer – except he’s pulled out too.

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Date: November 23rd, 2011
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Bayreuth May Improve Ticket Allocation, Limit Privileged Seats

The Bayreuth Festival Theater.
Source: Bayreuth Festival via Bloomberg


Bayreuth Festival’s supervisory board will examine the way it allocates tickets and make improvements where needed, after federal auditors criticized current practices, German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann said.

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Date: October 19th, 2011
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Romania brings back its baroque past

Pigeons fly over the centre of Sibiu, Transylvania, where recently discovered baroque manuscripts are being studied.
Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/Getty


Bach and Corelli hidden among the lost musical heritage of Transylvania

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Date: October 7th, 2011
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BBC announces UK-wide ‘Music Nation’ celebration


Nicola Benedetti, the CBSO and BBC ensembles to perform

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Date: September 23rd, 2011
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Barbican unveils Olympics arts festival

Juliette Binoche is to star in August Strindberg's play Mademoiselle Julie at the Barbican in 2012. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images


Programme includes theatre productions starring Juliette Binoche and Cate Blanchett, and major Bauhaus exhibition

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Date: September 9th, 2011
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