Germany has inaugurated a memorial to more than 200,000 people with physical and mental disabilities killed by the Nazis after their lives were deemed “worthless”.

Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, the New York Met — these have always been places for the theatre lover to imagine, but rarely experience.

Classical: Berlin Philharmonie, Live in HD

IT’S been a long day already for James Galway, his schedule filled with a host of media appearances and other duties in the run-up to a performance at the National Concert Hall.

ONCE again, Francis Humphrys has succeeded in attracting a host of wonderful performers to Bantry for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, which begins on Friday.

A CYBERSPACE based orchestra is conducting online auditions to find the best players to appear at a music summit in Australia that will be live-streamed on the web.

Three world premieres and an appearance by acclaimed conductor Sir Simon Rattle will form some of the highlights of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, it was announced today.

Marcello Viotti, the music director of Venice’s La Fenice Theatre, has died at a German hospital after falling into a coma.

Britain's Olympic champion rower James Cracknell was back in action today, at the Gramophone Record of the Year Awards.