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.

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 ...

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 ...

BERLIN — The conductor Simon Rattle stepped onto his podium here last month and gave the downbeat. But the orchestra in front of him was not his mighty Berlin Philharmonic — not exactly. One of the ...

BOSTON - Simon Rattle's pants are too long. About one inch too long to be exact. You could tell by the extra fold near the bottom of the Berlin Philharmonic conductor's pants Friday night at Boston's ...

Thomas Schadt's "Berlin Symphony" is a 75-years-later "answer" to Walther Ruttmann's historic 1927 documentary of the same name -- cinema's first/best "city symphony" poem. Suitable for avant-garde ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Simon Rattle conducted his final concert in charge of the Berlin Philharmonic on Sunday after 16 years that have revamped the image of the prestigious orchestra. Rattle was joined ...

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's guest appearances at Disney Concert Hall this past weekend marked two homecomings. For conductor Simon Rattle, it was a return to the city where, barely out of his ...