Italy's La Scala will play host to an opera on 23 January for the first time since before the Covid-19 lockdown, the iconic Milanese theatre announced.

The Grammy Awards are being postponed until 14 March due to coronavirus-related concerns, the organisers said on Tuesday. “After thoughtful conversations with health experts, our host and artists scheduled to appear, we are rescheduling the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards to be broadcast Sunday, March 14, 2021,” a statement reads.

The 13-year-old Thomas Kalin Simeonov, Laureate of Yordan Kamdzhalov Foundation for 2020, is the winner of the Gold honours of the “Grand Prize Virtuoso” International Music Competition in Bonn, Germany. He also received an invitation to participate in the Gala Concert at Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. Congratulations, Tommy!

The violinist Zornitsa Ilarionova, who recently won the Grand Prix of the Ohrid Te Sakam International Competition for Young Singers, and the talented cellist Atanas Krastev have recorded together a Christmas present for the lovers of classical music. Their latest video premiere, with music by the German Baroque composer George Frideric Handel - Passacaglia, can now be watched online.

Bob Dylan’s entire catalog of songs dating back 60 years is being acquired by Universal Music Publishing Group, AP reported. The catalog contains 600 song copyrights including “Blowin’ In The Wind,” “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door,” and “Tangled Up In Blue.”

Today we need prayer more than ever. Let it be the song about a world where people are better. If everyone has the desire to develop their talents, their essence, then we will live much better together on this planet, says maestro Konstantin Ilievski in an interview to Art.Sofia.bg.

Beethoven's 250th birthday will be marked on 17 December with the composer's Fifth Symphony conducted by Daniel Barenboim and performed by his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in an event broadcast on television, radio and online, dpa reported.

The final phase of the sixth season of Hungarian show in TV format – Virtuosos, is fast approaching. It is a unique classical music talent competition featuring performers up to twenty years old from Visegrad Four +. This year along with Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, will join Serbia.

My confidence that Bulgarian singers can perform anything, provided they are intelligent, well-trained vocally and have the ability to choose their roles in Wagner and Strauss operas with the right sense of tonality, expanded their horizons and gave a chance to dozens of new voices, says maestro Plamen Kartaloff in interview to Monitor.

Bulgarian opera lovers will have the opportunity to enjoy the opera Electra for the first time in Bulgaria on 26 and 29 November this year. The idea for the realisation of the production came from Acad. Plamen Kartaloff. Thus, the Sofia Opera and Ballet will join the most prestigious opera houses in the world which have in their repertoire the modernist work of Richard Strauss.