Nott bad news: Barcelona hires Brit
The next music director of the Gran Teatre de Liceu is to be the British conductor Jonathan Nott. He succeeds Josep Pons, who has held the post for 14 years. Nott, 62, has been chief […]
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The Chiaroscuro Quartet return in Haydn
We have met the super Ciaroscuro Quartet on a number of occasions, most saliently in Haydn in the first three of the Op. 76 Quartets here and in the balancing three (Nos. 4-6) here; but […]
Music Moves: John Savournin to Waterperry, Seb Lovell-Huckle to Birmingham
John Savournin The intriguing game of musical dominos in arts administration continues. Earlier this year it was announced the Guy Verrall-Withers, co-founder and artistic director of Waterperry Opera Festival, was becoming director of audiences & impact […]
A 7th symphony for the ages
A tweeter posted this list of ‘top’ 7th symphonies: 1. Beethoven 2. Bruckner 3. Mahler 4. Dvorak 5. Sibelius 6. Arnold 7. Shostakovich 8. Rubbra 9. Prokofiev 10. Glazunov I’d replace half of them. 1 […]
A child called Brock who is displaced from her home and wonders if life might be better among the badgers underground: Garsington Opera Youth Company in Hannah Conway’s Uprooted
Rehearsal for Uprooted – Garsington Opera Youth Company On 29 July 2025, Garsington Opera Youth Company joins forces with Sinfonia Smith Square to present Uprooted, a new opera by composer Hannah Conway and librettist Hazel […]
Music and arts to transform people’s lives: Britten Pears Arts presents Summer at Snape 2025
Having emerged from the Aldeburgh Festival [see Tony’s review of the closing concerts], Snape Maltings is gearing up for this year’s Summer at Snape, a month-long celebration of music running from 26 July – 31 August […]
Alaska names a music director
The Juneau Symphony has picked Brad Hogarth from a shortlist of four; he starts in September. Hogarth is associate professor of conducting at San Francisco State University and associate conductor of the Monterey Symphony. He […]
Chicago Symphony mourns a violinist
The death has been made known of Fox Fehling, a CSO violinist from 1979 until her retirement three years ago. Fox was 76. Originally from Iowa, she was the first winner of the Mische Elman […]
Jonas Kaufmann is a grandfather
Slippedisc.com congratulates the German-Austrian tenor and welcomes him to the club of the third generation. Kaufmann’s married daughter Charlotte Kaufmann, 27, has given birth to a baby girl, her first child. Jonas Kaufmann, 55, is […]
An American takes over major German festival
It has been announced overnight that the next director of the Ruhrtriennale is to be Lydia Steier, an opera director who has made her name in Lucerne and Vienna. Steier, 47, is from Connecticut, granddaughter […]
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