Slipped Disc

We’re hearing that cello professor Melissa Kraut has told her class she is leaving the Cleveland Institute of Music at the end of the present school year. The exodus continues. The executive digs in. The […]

On David Krauss’s Speaking Soundly, soprano Angel Blue relates how she discovered in fourth grade that her voice could affect people. he tells David what she does backstage and how she gets known as ‘the […]

Three arthouses in New York and five in Los Angeles have been named for the film’s release tonight. The reason to secure big screens for the film, before it goes to Netflix, is so that […]

The Almeida director Rupert Goold has been named artistic director of the iconic Old Vic theatre, succeeding Matthew Warchus. Goold, 52, has staged several musicals, but no opera. The post Old Vic names new boss […]

Dr Clemens Trautmann, President of Deutsche Grammophon, has been promoted to President of Deutsche Grammophon and New Business Strategy. The title gives him extra elbow in dealing with a new global head of classical and […]

Andrew Given is leaving English National Opera where he is director of development, in charge of fundraising. He has worked for the company in London for 14 years. Given is to be director of Queer […]

The state theatre in Augsburg was in trouble when its experienced intendant Florian Stiehler resigned this year. What to do in a crisis? They called in a lawyer, Ulrike Kuhrdt. She took charge so effectively […]

Francesco Meli is due to sing Verdi’s Otello at La Fenice. He expected the director to give him some make up to darken his features when portraying the great Moor. But the director Fabio Cerese […]

In a rare toe-dip into contemporary music, the Vienna Philharmonic will tonight play Bruno Hartl’s Ballad for Large Orchestra, ahead of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. Hartl was a timpanist in the orchestra. He retired early in […]

Carlos Acosta Masterclass This one is only for real ballet freaks but for those of us who love the nuts and bolts of how great art is made, this is a treat. It’s a masterclass […]