Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, is streaming Die Fledermaus today. Johann Strauss II’s comic operetta in three acts premiered in 1874 and has become a synonym of the operetta genre. In only six years, the operetta […]
The French musicologist and broadcaster Marcel Marnat has died at the age of 91. He was the author of the impressive 1985 Fayard biography of Maurice Ravel, and he was head of France Musique from […]
The Observer music critic Fiona Maddocks rates Death in Venice as her signature opera experience of the year. Read her full rankings here. There is stgill time to add your top 3 to the Slippedisc […]