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 […]
The Czech violinist Pavel Šporcl was playing the Mendelssohn concerto with the Mlada Boleslav Chamber Orchestra when a sideswipe from the conductor’s baton knocked his precious blue violin out of his hands. Only a swift […]
We have been notified of the passing of Christopher Keyte, a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, who made more than fifty solo recordings and appeared in leading roles at Covent Garden and elsewhere. He […]
