An industry PR has warned in the Wall Street Journal that new regulations jeopardise the singular source of new piano boards. … The specialized wood they use for the soundboards comes from the Tongass National […]
There’s a pair of last-minute changes in Bayreuth’s Meistersinger tonight. Conductor Daniele Gatti is replaced by Axel Kober. Hans Sachs will be sung by Michael Volle, jumping in for the still-unwell Georg Zeppenfeld. What goes […]
The new production at Arena di Verona has been totally detached from Verdi’s story of Jewish exiles in Babylon. The costumes are space suits, the stage set looks like a post-modern, peripheral bus terminus and […]
Two torrential downpours cost the Austrian laketop festival half a million dollars in ticket refunds. They’ve done the sums and started dismantling the Freischütz set ahead of schedule. Bit of a washout. Read here. The […]
They’re still doing it on Apple Classical this week. Here’s the global top ten, exclusive to slippedisc.com: 1 Sleep Max Richter 2 Mozart: Violin Concertos Chloe Chua, Ziyu He, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf […]
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra which got caught in a hapless Gaza uproar and sacked its entire board is trying to repair the damage with these images under new CEO Richard Wigley. He says: ‘This brand […]
From my op-ed today in The Telegraph, under the headline ‘Why is the Royal Opera House allowing a Russian singer back on stage?’ … Are we victimising an important artist for her country’s crimes, a […]
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It’s the long-heralded John Malkovich film. The script sounds as if it’s written by AI. The post Watch the Celibidache film trailer appeared first on Slippedisc.
This is what you’ll receive if you want to see Marrange of Figaro at Glyndebourne Festival Opera: Are we agrred that this has gone too far? It’s either a summer intern in the marketing cabin […]
