On the day of the Met opening of Jake Heggie’s opera, Peter Mattei phoned in sick. Thomas Glass, winner of the 2019 National Council Auditions, was summoned to jump in. The post Last-minute Starbuck […]
Mama Africa Zenzile Miriam Makeba, often known as Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist. In the 1960s, she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around […]
He can;t play all the time with Yuja. And MTT just happened to be free. Vikingut writes: ‘Finally met Michael Tilson Thomas in person yesterday. Felt like we knew each other for a long time.’ […]
The Bishop has just published his review into recent scandals at the Cathedral and Dean Catherine Ogle has drawn the short straw. She’s retiring immediately, instead of in summer, but the heavy-handed Precentor remains in […]
Having two productions of Bellini’s Norma running simultaneously at the Vienna Staatsoper and Teater an der Wien has certain advantages. Juan Diego Florez has fallen sick and can’t sing Pollione tonight at the Staatsoper. In […]
BBC Radio 3 has selected young German pianist Julius Asal as the 2025 winner of the coveted Terence Judd-Hallé Award. The announcement comes on the same day that the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists […]
This role represents a new chapter for The Benedetti Foundation which celebrates its fifth birthday this year. Having grown exponentially since its inception, Fitzpatrick will be responsible for implementing the educational mission of the Foundation, […]
The Chicago Symphony has announced that Esteban Batallán is returning as its principal trumpet, ‘following the conclusion of a one-year leave from the Orchestra’. What is doesn’t say is that Batallán joined the Philadelphia Orchestra, […]
The Taipei Symphony Orchestra has chosen Alexander Liebreich as ikts next chef condcutor. Liebreich, 56, is also music director of the Orchestra de Valencia in Spain. In Taipei he succeeds the long-serving Eliahu Inbal. The […]
Ginette DePriest has published a memoir of her late husband James DePreist. The post The maestro who overcame polio (and color prejudice) appeared first on Slippedisc.
