Slipped Disc

The veteran entertainer has four concerts still to go, but he’s pulling down the curtain after seven decades on the road. His social media informs us: As many of you may already be aware, Johnny […]

The half-banned Russian soprano will singer her first Amelia in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera in the coming season at Staatsoper under den Linden, rolled out yesterday by her loyal supporter, Christian Thielemann. The newly […]

From our Nordic correspondent: Since the start of the war, two or three ballet groups have been touring Sweden and Finland under Ukrainian flags, collecting money for the national defence. It now appears all the […]

A recording of piano music by the esoteric Scotsman Ronald Stevenson was last night awarded Classical Record of the Year at Grammis 2025, the Swedish record industry’s annual bash. The recording, on the Finnish label […]

The municipal council of Pforzheim in southwest Germany has appointed Daniel Inbal as its theatre’s next General Music Director. Inbal, whose father Eliahu enjoyed a far-flung international career, has been Kapellmeister for the past 15 […]

Virginia Woolf 84 years ago this week on 28th March, Virginia Woolf aged 59 took her own life by walking into the River Ouse with stones in her pockets because, having suffered from recurring bouts […]

How far may a person go to free themselves from dire circumstances? Here, a woman becomes a vile murderer, and yet the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich sympathises with her.  Of his own radically complex leading character, […]

The North Carolina Symphony is mourning Erik Dyke who played double bass in the orchestra for almost 50 years. He was well known around Raleigh for cycling through town with a 20-pound double bass strapped […]

Washington National Opera and the National Symphony just announced next season’s plans under new management. WNO is putting on Robert Ward’s opera of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a reconfoguration of the 1650s Salem witch-hunt as […]

The London Philharmonic last night played works by Saariaho, Prokofiev and Nielsen at the Royal Festival Hall. The conductor was the underrated Finn Hannu Lintu and the soloist was Alina Ibragimova. If any European orchestra […]