Johnnie Walker quits Ed Fest
The blended Scotch whisky brand has neded six years of lead sponsorship for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They have no replacement. The city is proposing to impose an overnight tax on visitors from next year […]
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Bible College sues composer for defamation
Indiana Bible College has filed a libel suit against composer Rosephayne Powell and her publisher Fred Bock Music Co. after she alleged on social media that the the school unlawfully based a viral hit song […]
Leslie Garrett to make Sondheim debut
The former shining light of the former English National Opera is to appear with Northern Ireland Opera in Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. Leslie gushes: ‘I’m so excited to be coming back to Belfast and especially to […]
Saint Anton Bruckner, if you please
A Slippedisc subscriber has written to Pope Leo, proposing the beatification of the Austrian composer. Why not? Bruckner was Catholic,lived a blameless life and wrote screeds of sonorous solemnities for the mother Church. Drop a […]
Carmen is stopped due to smoking on stage
The Vienna State Opera’s performance of Jacques Bizet’s Carmen was stopped on Tuesday after health and safety officials became concerned at the sight of smoke rising on stage. An opera official later confirmed that there […]
Opera Holland Park 2025 – Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman – with Paul Carey Jones, Eleanor Dennis & Robert Winslade Anderson; directed by Julia Burbach; conducted by Peter Selwyn
On the occasion of this performance of The Flying Dutchman, leaden skies, chilly winds, and rather heavy rain beyond the half-open canopied auditorium of Holland Park seemed appropriately closer to the North Sea than a summer’s […]
Rare Bellini: La straniera
Bellini La strraniera (concert performance) Cast; Chorus and Orchestra of Chelsea Opera Group /. Stephen Barlow (conductor) Cadogan Hall, London, 01.06.2025 Cast: Alaide (La straniera) – Heena Dix Valdeburgo – Dan D’Souza Isoletta – […]
Dazzling aural journeys where the political commentary and sheer playfulness combine with a serious purpose: Anselm McDonnell’s Politics of the Imagination
Anselm McDonnell: Stop Small Boats, Politics of the Imagination, The Union is our God, Cross-Purposes; Crash Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Kosyne, Barrowclough, Joel the Custodian; Anselm McDonnell/BandcampReviewed 4 June 2025 Politics and playfulness thread their way through […]
Yale picks a decolonising feminist
Not sure anyone could make this up. This is from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. What is does ought to be clear from the title. What they are hiring is off another planet. Welcome […]
Poor Van Cliburn is reviewed by Zoom
The 17th Van Cliburn Competition formed a media partnership with Gramophone magazine. All fine and dandy. But Gramphone’s reviews of the competition have been done from home. Critic Jed Distler clarifies: Before discussing Friday’s performances, […]
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