On the 31st (local time), at the Berlin Philharmonie, the concert hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. Before embarking on an ...

Liverpool-born maestro, now 63, Sir Simon Rattle conducts at the Berliner Waldbuehne his final concert at the helm of the Berlin Philharmonic after 16 years in Berlin, Germany, June 24, 2018.

It’s a career-defining opportunity. With only three days’ notice, Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot has been asked to fill in as guest conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic, a contender ...

Standouts included the soprano Lise Davidsen and the Berlin Philharmonic, a new opera by Missy Mazzoli and bits of old ones by Schubert. By Zachary Woolfe and Joshua Barone In three concerts at ...

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The Berlin Philharmonic's members cloistered in an undisclosed location Monday to elect their next chief conductor, one of the most prestigious jobs in the world of classical music. The orchestra's ...

Update from the Berlin Philharmonic below (The last sentence, presumably, means: Yelling, but no fist-fights) and at this link: Voting for Chief Conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker Brings No ...

On Monday, the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic gathered at the Jesus Christus Kirche, in the Berlin suburb of Dahlem, to pick a new chief conductor. Unlike most ensembles of its kind, the ...

The Berlin Philharmonic has chosen Russian-born conductor Kirill Petrenko, general music director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, to become its next chief conductor and artistic director, the ...

Radio Berlin-Brandenburg reports that the Berlin Philharmonic has elected Kirill Petrenko as their new music director and successor to Simon Rattle. An inquiry by that station was neither confirmed ...

It isn’t easy being the greatest orchestra in the world. Whether or not the Berlin Philharmonic really is that is not the issue so much as the expectation that it be the best. The arguments are ...