The Swedish dramatic baritone John Lundgren has announced his retirement on Instagram. – After 25 years in this extraordinary industry, in over 60 roles, on over 50 different opera and concert stages around the world […]
The protest drew between 500 and 600 people outside the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. The Slovak prime minister was absent, visiting Putin in Moscow. The post Hundreds protest against Anna Netrebko in Slovakia appeared […]
When did you last hear a concerto for squeezebox and symphony orchestra? It’s a refreshingly agreeable alternative bit of Bournemouth programming. The post Watch out: There’s an accordion in my orchestra appeared first on Slippedisc.
The incoming MD has given a soft-soap interview to Playbill: What are your hopes for your season as Music and Artistic Director Designate? It is the start of a beautiful journey, filled with powerful new […]
Message received: Professor Barbara Gronau is no longer President of the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding and Head of the Dramaturgy Program. The State Ministry for Science and the Arts has terminated her employment due […]
Audience favourite Adrian Eröd will take over the State Opera’s Opera Studionext season. Eröd, 54, will be in charge of the training programme for young singers, one of the best in Europe. The post Baritone […]
Reports that Berlin’s culture senator Joe Chialo was about to become Minister of State for Culture in the Friedrich Merz cabinet have proved false. The next minister is to be former Focus editor Wolfram Weimer. This […]
Police have put out an appeal for sightings of Hanna Balcer, a 14 year-old schoolgirl who went missing after leaving her parents’ home on April 24. She was last seen at around 7.50pm on April […]
Antonio Stradivari made very few violas. Eleven survive to this day. One has just been gifted to the Library of Congress. Maybe it will get taken out to play Happy Birthday to the President. Here’s […]
Berklee College of Music has fired trumpeter Nicholas Payton, chair of the school’s Brass Department,over a string of anti-semitic comments in his social media. Among other libels he accused Jews of oppressing black people. Payton […]
