Classical music, along with nature-inspired virtual reality landscapes, can help reduce blood pressure significantly, new ...

The Hallé orchestra has become the new home of around 1,500 items once belonging to the composer. The archive made a 3,500 ...

A standard piano keyboard could put female (and smaller-handed) players at a distinct disadvantage, according to new Stanford ...

The yellow-peach “sun-glow” boa will appear at the Metropolitan Opera with performance artist Zoe Ziegfeld, who plays a snake ...

Researchers have found that lemurs use the ‘formant tuning’ technique taught to opera singers to reach the high notes.

21. Rejoice in the Lord - Redford John Redford, a renowned Tudor composer who died in 1547, may or may not have written this sprightly choral piece. It's attributed to him, but recent scholarship ...

English Baroque composer Henry Purcell wrote his first opera based on the story of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and the Prince of Troy, Aeneas, based on a libretto by Nahum Tate. It was first performed in ...

Mozart's Symphony No. 40 is an iconic classical work, endlessly used in film and television, but what's the story behind the composer's most popular symphony? All but two of Mozart’s 41 symphonies are ...

Johann Sebastian Bach didn’t like students much. Unfortunately for him, the church in Arnstadt where he first worked had a student choir and orchestra. There was no mention of the ensemble in his ...

7. Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 Despite only arriving in Paris in September 1831, Chopin never returned to his homeland of Poland. While he was in the city, he forged friendships with great ...

Il Divo - 20 facts you never knew You might know Il Divo are made up of singers Urs Bühler, Carlos Marin, Sébastien Izambard and David Miller, but how much more do you know about the opera group?

It’s probably an oft-made point, but it’s worth making again: Holst’s 1914 work, The Planets, is not about the planets. That is, it’s not about astronomy. Rather, it’s about astrology. So we are not ...