Today [01/05/2025] BBC Radio 3 reveals the names of the New Generation Artists (NGAs) joining the station’s prestigious talent development scheme in September 2025 through to December 2027. They are: the UK-based Astatine Trio (pianist […]
The protest drew between 500 and 600 people outside the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. The Slovak prime minister was absent, visiting Putin in Moscow. The post Hundreds protest against Anna Netrebko in Slovakia appeared […]
When did you last hear a concerto for squeezebox and symphony orchestra? It’s a refreshingly agreeable alternative bit of Bournemouth programming. The post Watch out: There’s an accordion in my orchestra appeared first on Slippedisc.
The incoming MD has given a soft-soap interview to Playbill: What are your hopes for your season as Music and Artistic Director Designate? It is the start of a beautiful journey, filled with powerful new […]
Message received: Professor Barbara Gronau is no longer President of the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding and Head of the Dramaturgy Program. The State Ministry for Science and the Arts has terminated her employment due […]
Audience favourite Adrian Eröd will take over the State Opera’s Opera Studionext season. Eröd, 54, will be in charge of the training programme for young singers, one of the best in Europe. The post Baritone […]
Reports that Berlin’s culture senator Joe Chialo was about to become Minister of State for Culture in the Friedrich Merz cabinet have proved false. The next minister is to be former Focus editor Wolfram Weimer. This […]
I was very, very take by Omer Meir Wellber’s appearance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in March. So much so that I sought out this, the 2019 release of Wellber’s Butterfly from Glyndebourne. And while […]
A Major Music Supplies In this guest posting, Roger Foxcroft of A Major Music Supplies in Staffordshire talks about the important role that physical music shops have to play for rising musicians. Roger Foxcroft It’s […]
Police have put out an appeal for sightings of Hanna Balcer, a 14 year-old schoolgirl who went missing after leaving her parents’ home on April 24. She was last seen at around 7.50pm on April […]
