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19/08/2026

Kate Wagner's AI Bayreuth "Ring" saga continues with a mercifully less hyperactive "Siegfried" and some clarity from director Marcus Lobbes: https://van-magazine.com/mag/bayreuth-ai-siegfried/

17/08/2026

"Die Walküre" is the most sensitive, least cynical opera of the "Ring" cycle. How did Bayreuth's AI staging do with it? Kate Wagner reports: https://van-magazine.com/mag/bayreuth-ai-walkuere/

14/08/2026

Our critic Kate Wagner went to see the AI "Ring" at Bayreuth. She... didn't like it: https://van-magazine.com/mag/bayreuth-ai-rheingold/

13/08/2026

In the aughts, the New York venue Le Poisson Rouge was the great hope for classical music in alternative spaces. How did it end up presenting ICE-T concerts? Kevin Ng reports: https://van-magazine.com/mag/le-poisson-rouge/

16/07/2026

How Maddie Ashman took microtonality mainstream, by Marat Ingeldeev:

https://van-magazine.com/mag/maddie-ashman/

07/07/2026

The Maison Krug Champagne and Max Richter Listening Session is just the most luxurious of many recent attempts at pairing music and fine wine. But what does art gain from this proximity to luxury?

https://van-magazine.com/mag/krug-champagne-max-richter/

03/07/2026

The İÇ İÇE Festival for new Anatolian music in Germany is a chance for Berlin’s classical music scene to learn from migrant artists’ perspectives. The singer MADANii performed with an ensemble of 16 musicians from the Konzerthaus Orchestra in a recent concert at the Festsaal Kreuzberg that VAN’s Merle Krafeld attended. “I was born in Munich, I grew up here,” MADANii says. “There are Iranian elements in my music because I grew up in an Iranian family. That influenced my music. [But] I don’t represent the Iranian community, I represent my sounds: The influences that meet in me, what’s in my ear, what I find beautiful.”

01/07/2026

The composer Hans Werner Henze was born 100 years ago today in Gütersloh. Pictured here with Ingeborg Bachmann in Naples, 1956 • Photo © Hans Werner Henze-Stiftung

30/06/2026

Alex Ross, arguably this century’s defining classical music critic, has stepped down from his role at The New Yorker after thirty years in post.

“Although the musical scene exhilarates me more than ever - contemporary music is eternally vital - I wouldn’t want to overstay my welcome,” Ross said, adding that he’d prefer to stay closer to home at this stage of life. Ross will stay on as a New Yorker staff writer.

26/06/2026

When the pianist Jacob Greenberg first met the composer Wang Lu, he found her music to be "beyond the beyond." As their collaboration deepened, he came to understand its coherence, too: https://van-magazine.com/mag/wang-lu/

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