There are signs that Russia’s cultural isolation may be easing.
The Bolshoi has been invited to Serbia and Thailand next month.
Its new chief Valery Gergiev is pulling out all the stops to break out onto the world stage.
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Sources in and around the New York Philharmonic are filling in some of the gaps around the abrupt departure of Gary Ginstling as president and CEO, just a year after taking office. Ginstling, they say, […]
The Metropolitan Opera has appointed Hiroshi Nakachi from Oaka, Japan, as its new tuba player. He plays in Aida tonight. The post Met hires tuba appeared first on Slippedisc.
Australian musicians are mourning the death of the Melbourne pianist, harpsichordist and teacher Dean Sky-Lucas. He was apparently in hospital, recovering from surgery, when an advanced cancer was discovered. The Melbourne conductor Benjamin Northey writes: […]
