Beethoven, reimagined by AI

For the first time, Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision streams the finals of the Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Competition. From an initial field of over 200 young singers from 40 countries, the finalists gather in […]

Our resident critic Alastair Macaulay is spending most of his summer at the Royal Albert Hall: by Alastair Macaulay Let’s hear it for the term “semi-staged”! On Monday 1 September, English National Opera presented Shostakovich’s […]

A reader points out: The quiet resignation of Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz, Jason Moran, leaves only classical artists on the Center’s artistic payroll: Gianandrea Noseda, Steven Reineke, Carlos Simon, Jennifer Koh, Francesca Zambello […]