Slipped Disc

The Italian tenor, who would have turned 100 on Saturday, is to be celebrated at La La Scala on July 15, at a Turndot performance. Bergonzi died, aged 90, in July 2014. Born near Parma, […]

Taking its lead from the Spain football team, whose teenaged star gets sent to bed before full-time, the Vancouver Symphony has chosen Julin Cheung as its Assistant Principal Flute/Piccolo after an international audition. Julin is […]

The Placido Domingo-founded competition, to be held in Mumbai in September, has named its judges. Among them are Marta Domingo and several artistic ‘advisors’. The Domingos’ grandson, Dominic, has been the competition organiser. List The […]

Vermeer – the exhibition of the century Click here for tickets – tv subscription In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam opened its doors to the largest Vermeer  exhibition in history. By the […]

The German-Russian pianist has organised a counter-antisemitism concert at the Elbphilharmonie: Hamburg, 10 July 2024: On the initiative of Igor Levit, the Elbphilharmonie is making an appeal to humanity with a solidarity concert. On 16 […]

A French court has sentenced the cornet player and early-music leader Jean Tubéry to six months in prison, suspended, and three years’ ineligibility for public office. He was found guilty of ‘repeatedly imposed comments with […]

Message just in from the EUYO – The European Union Youth Orchestra: We proudly announce our new music director Iván Fischer. This August, Maestro Fischer will open our #2024summertour at Grafenegg, followed by touring to […]

For the third time, the Times has published a glorious encomium to the Boston Symphony boss, Chad Smith: Sneaking through the shrubbery, however, was the light breeze of change. Chad Smith, the Boston Symphony’s ambitious […]

Kim Noltemy started work yesterday as president and CEO of the troubled Los Angeles Philharmonic. She is the fourth to take the helm since Deborah Borda left in 2017 and the working atmosphere has darkened […]

Twenty years after his lovely death, apparently by his own hand, Carlos Kleiber stands out in memory as the most accomplaished conductor the world has ever seen. Every Carlos performance – and there were not […]