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Slipped Disc March 17, 2025

Filipina is lone outsider in Metropolitan Opera winners

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Yesterday’s winners at the Met Opera’s Laffont Competition are:

Sadie Cheslak, 30, mezzo-soprano (Duluth, Minnesota)

Michelle Mariposa, 30, mezzo-soprano (Quezon City, Philippines)

Luke Sutliff, 28, baritone (Denver, Colorado)

Alissa Goretsky, 25, soprano (Los Angeles)

Emma Marhefka, 25, soprano (Allentown, Pennsylvania)

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Slipped Disc October 27, 2024

Exclusive: ENO orchestra to play countryhouse opera

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We hear that the orchestra of English National Opera has been engaged to play Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa at Grange Park Opera next summer. It will be conducted by ENO’s former music director, Martyn Brabbins, who resigned […]

Slipped Disc December 30, 2024

Thugs beat up opera conductor in the heart of Europe

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The atmosphere in the Serb capital Belgrade just turned uglier. Early this month, a car drove into a group of Belgrade Philharmonic musicians who were protesting at Government indifference towards victims of a railway disaster. […]

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Far from special interest: discs of brass band music by Arthur Bliss and Malcolm Arnold, two brilliant and highly satisfying portraits

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Arthur Bliss: Works for Brass Band; Black Dyke Band, John Wilson; ChandosMalcolm Arnold: Music for Brass Band; Foden’s Band, Choir of Chetham’s School of Music, Michael Fowles; BeckusReviewed 24 August 2024 Two discs focussing on […]

Filipina is lone outsider in Metropolitan Opera winners

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Exclusive: ENO orchestra to play countryhouse opera

Thugs beat up opera conductor in the heart of Europe

Far from special interest: discs of brass band music by Arthur Bliss and Malcolm Arnold, two brilliant and highly satisfying portraits

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