The polemicist Heather Mac Donald detects the dead hand of Edward Said behind the Met’s dysfunctional new production of Aida in which the supernumerary hero is a befuddled Egyptologist. Her brilliant article appears in next […]
More news from the valleys: The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama has announced Dame Shirley Bassey as its President for the next three years. She succeeds HM King Charles who, when Prince of […]
The Apple top ten, licensed exclusively to slippedisc.com, has remained static through the summer. In the top spot is Max Richter ‘s sleeptime-time. Second is an altogether unheralded recording of Mozart concertos by Chloe Chua […]