When The Magic Flute opens tonight in Hong Kong it will be the first major opera co-production between China and Australia. The project likes State Opera South Australia with Opera Hong Kong, the Beijing Music […]
Management of the Sibiu Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania has responded to our previous report: At the end of the negotiation session of the Collective Labour Agreement yesterday, May 14, 2025, members of the Sibiu Philharmonic Instrumentalists’ […]
The annual shlock-fest of voyeuristic folly has a fervid fan. The conductor Paavo Järvi, head of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, has his eyeballs ready and his twitter-fingers itching. He can’t wait for the vote from […]
Gypsy Click here to watch NPR is one of the totally terrific things about the United States. It is National Public Radio, a coalition of local radio stations in towns and cities all over the […]
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra has let it be known that Alexander Shelley will step down as music director a year from now, after 11 years in the podium. NAC Orchestra Managing Director Nelson McDougall […]
Independent Rajar monitoring figures, out today, show that the classical music station achieved 2.15m listeners in the past three months, the highest Q1 reach for at least ten years. The relexation stream, BBC Unwind, added […]
Makcim Fernandez Samodaiev, solo cellist of the Sibiu Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania, has reached breaking ppoint after two fruitless years of labour negotiations. He tells Slippedisc: Today, during the negotiations for the Collective Labor Agreement, […]
News from Sarasota, Fllorida: Longtime Sarasota Orchestra supporters Jack and Priscilla Schlegel have made a transformative $10 million gift to advance the future Music Center at 5701 Fruitville Road. Their investment marks a major milestone for […]
The renowned British lute and theorbo player, David Miller, has died at the age of 72. For four decades Dai – as he was universally known – played continuo on theorbo, chitarrone and baroque guitar […]
Franck Rabbio writes: It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce the passing of my father, Salvatore Rabbio, who died Monday night at the age of 90. Sal was the Principal Timpanist […]
