This week, 91 of the world's finest musicians will clear their diaries and fly to Jerusalem for a rare performance of the World Orchestra for Peace. Each will have received a call from Charles Kaye, ...

Beyoncé is on track to become the most decorated artist in Grammys history tonight (5 February). The US singer has 30 Grammy Awards to her name already and is nominated for a further seven at ...

Renee Montagne talks to classical music commentator Miles Hoffman about one of the most important conductors of the 20th century: Sir George Solti. This Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of his birth ...

Georg Solti loved birthday parties, especially his own. One can only imagine how thrilled he would have been to witness the outpouring of affection from the international gathering of colleagues who ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Solti Foundation U.S. revealed today the twelfth recipient of the ...

A member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra once said of its late music director, Sir Georg Solti, “You could feel him coming weeks before he arrived.” And though the mighty maestro died in 1997, his ...

Georg Solti took over as music director at Covent Garden in 1961. His first new production there was Die Walküre; it was originally intended to be the first instalment of a complete Ring cycle, but ...

Donald Johanos, a former music director of the Dallas and Honolulu symphonies, has died at the age of 79 in his Naples, Fla., home after a long illness. Sir Georg ...

It’s hard to believe that Sir Georg Solti would be a hundred years old if he were still alive today. I met this great conductor several times and he blazed with such intensity and energy that age didn ...

We are listening to the opening bars of the overture to Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman." It was performed by the Chicago Symphony, and the conductor was Sir Georg Solti. That performance ...