The Trinidadian singer Jeanine de Bique has been receiving some critical heat in Paris over her French diction as Telaire in Rameau’s Telaire Castor et Pollux at the Opéra. She’s not going to take that. […]
The agency has ‘reintroduced’ its classical touring division in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and South America. Peter Ansell of Intermusica joins as executive VP and head of department. See also: The case for […]
Orchestra consultant Thomas Wolf throws down a gauntlet: Let’s say you are an aging professional athlete who has enjoyed a successful career in your sport but you are no longer competing at a peak professional […]
Do not try this when practising piano. The post Musicians who look like their pets: (3) Vladimir Horowitz and his poodle appeared first on Slippedisc.
In her first interview as intendant of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Elisabeth Sobotka says she is cancelling one production in the 2025-26 season – which one has yet to be decided. The company is […]
Now the Federal Government has laid off all of its diversity staff, there will be orchestras up and down the USA who will want to be sacking their vice-presidents in charge of Diversity, Equity and […]
The German tenor has issued a short video in the wake of press reports that he was following Placido Domingo into the darker depths. The reports were triggered by his Vienna appearance in I Pagliacci, […]
D.W. Griffith – Film Director David Wark Griffith was born on January 22nd, 1875, in Crestwood, Kentucky, so this is his 150th birthday. This American film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for Birth of […]
That can’t be a German dog, surely. It looks too heimisch. photo: Instagram The post Musicians who look like their pets: (2) Bernstein and his Dachshund appeared first on Slippedisc.
We learn from 4barsrest that Kaitlin Wild has been appointed Principal Second Trumpet with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. She is also a member of Onyx Brass and Septura Brass Ensemble and has freelanced […]
