Kelli O’Hara Here is a terrific performance of the title song from the great Broadway musical, She Loves Me. It comes from this year’s Broadway Backwards, the annual one-night-only event produced by Broadway Cares. It celebrates LGBTQ+, […]
Hildur Guðnadóttir in Concert Hildur Guðnadóttir (trench cello); London Contemporary Orchestra / Robert Ames (conductor). Guðnadóttir Tár. Without Sinking: Opaque. Saman: Liður. Chernobyl: Vichnaya Pamyat. Fólk Faer Andlit. A Haunting in Venice: Confession. Music from Joker […]
After five years in charge, the chief conductor has given a rare interview to the elite orchestra’s website: Are there aspects of Mahler’s personality to which you have felt particularly drawn? His Jewishness has always […]
From my monthly essay in The Critic: … there is just enough method in the Trumpian mayhem to suggest the possibility of positive outcomes. We have heard too much moralising from arts leaders. Arts centres […]
From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I’m stuck between two cellists. One is a Zionist, the other pro-Palestinian. They no longer talk. I am the one expected to hold the section together, even though I am […]
Fotina Naumenko and the performers on Bespoke Songs Fotina Naumenko is an American soprano of Russian heritage. Her album Bespoke Songs on New Focus Recordings was nominated for a 2025 Grammy for Best Classical Solo […]
Mozart La finta giardiniera (concert performance, Bärenreiter edition, ed. Angemüller/Berke). Soloists; The Mozartists / Ian Page. Cadogan Hall, 25.03.2025 Sandrina Ava Dodd Don Anchise Michael Ball Count Belfiore Hugo Brady Arminda Camilla Harris […]
The Finns plan next season to premiere an opera of Karl Ove Knausgård’s autobiographical series of novels, Min Kamp, which runs to 3,500 pages and is presently stopping many household doors. The Norwegian is described […]
Watch the season launch video, with its declaration of independence from Arts Council England. The post What really went down at the Wigmore Hall appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Minnesota Orchestra is not afraid of the unfamiliar. The Chilean-Italian conductor Paolo Bortolameolli outs on Venezuelan-Chilean composer Miguel Farías’ Retratos Australes, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 3, and First Associate Concertmaster Susie Park performs Mexican-born Gabriela […]
