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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 […]

This may be the only Epstein number you are recommended to try at home. The post Join in the Jeffrey Epstein song appeared first on Slippedisc.

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 […]

The tennis champion is wintering with Vivaldi. Needs a new bowing coach. To be Franck. View this post on Instagram A post shared by ASICS (@asics)   The post What a racket! Novak Djokovic plays […]

A survey by Dance Date Project reveals that 54 percent of the lagrest 150 US ballet companies are finished their last financial year (FY23) in deficit. The previous year (FY22) only 20 percent showed a deficit. […]