Constructed in 1888, the Concertgebouw (literally "Concert Building") hosts 900-plus shows and about 700,000 visitors per year, which makes it one of the world's busiest concert venues. Check the ...

Semyon Bychkov knew exactly what he wanted out of the great Concertgebouw orchestra in yet another Mahler Fifth. (Musacchio Ianniello) When the world's great orchestras go on tour, they want to ...

Amsterdam's world-class orchestra and concert hall celebrate their 125th anniversary this week. Tom Service explains why the hall's famously perfect acoustics create unexpected challenges for its ...

In any contest for the world’s finest symphony orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw from Amsterdam would get plenty of votes, maybe as many as, or even more than, the celebrated ensembles from Berlin ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid notes that it takes “light and shadow [to] explore the conundrum of ...

A performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem came to a halt on Wednesday evening at The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam when a climate protester interrupted the performance. In a video shared by the ...

Long before novelist John le Carré mixed political intrigue with a splash of romance, there was Rossini's Maometto Secondo. Like Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Rossini's opera is set in a ...

1888: The Concertgebouw concert hall opens in Amsterdam. The Concertgebouw, designed by Adolf Leonard van Gendt, is renowned above all else for its superb acoustics. Its architecture was inspired by ...

The newly announced music director of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw in 2016 will arrive at a time when it has never been so critically lauded – or financially threatened The Gramophone ...

Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw concert hall has cancelled this year’s Hanukkah concert after organisers refused to replace the lead singer, who is linked to the Israeli army. The Amsterdam concert hall ...