The Beverly Sills Artist Award 2024 has gone to Leah Hawkins, a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Last season she sang the principal role of Louise/Betty in the Met premiere of […]
Conductor Ivan Fischer writes: It is with deep sadness that I share the grief of the family and the whole Hungarian music world: we have lost György Konrád, Pamacs, the wonderful violinist and friend. As […]
Arts Cancel England has just forced English Touring Opera to relocate to former steeltown Sheffield. Are they missing something here? Sheffield was chosen by ACE as the home for a National Centre for Popular Music. […]
The international soprano Claire Rutter has been made to suffer by persistent phone users. She tells slippedisc.com: I was rehearsing a Verdi Requiem in Liverpool Cathedral a few weeks ago. A guy started filming, a […]
Kin – National Theatre At Home Click here to watch In 1932, Leah and her family escaped persecution and embarked on a journey from Yemen to Palestine.Ninety years later, her grandson Amit Lahav, Artistic Director […]
Virginia Opera is searching for a new CEO as Peggy Kriha Miller handed in her notice in after less than five years. Terms are getting shorter, conditions tougher. Miller says she wants to prioritise her […]
A student from Vietnam, Linh Hong Nguyen, died when a car mounted a sidewalk in Red Hook, NY as she walked home from receiving her master’s degree at Bard College. Her tragic death was confirmed […]
The British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig, who pleaded guilty to three offences of soliciting a person he believed to be underage on a gay dating app, was given a 14-month sentence suspended for two years at […]
By our roving New York critic Susan Hall: Maestra, a lively documentary film by Maggie Contreras, opens in the United States this week. The film follows five contestants in the second biennial Maestra competition […]
All middle-school students at Avon Lake High School in Cleveland, Ohio, are required to study music. The school has just put on a performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria with full orchestra and 154 singers. All is […]
