Martha Argerich: No place to Haydn

Lorenzeo Viotti has cancelled two concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic. Esa-Pekka Salonen, already in Salzburg for an opera, jumps in. Press release: To his great regret, Lorenzo Viotti has been forced to cancel his participation […]

Italy’s only aircraft carrier, the Giuseppe Garibaldi, is planning to stage an opera on deck. Singers will make their entrance by helicopter. Read here. The post Madama Butterfly on a battleship appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Carnegie Hall director Sir Clive Gillinson is the latest guest on David Krauss’s Speaking Soundly. Clive talks about getting thrown out of the National Youth Orchestra, being catapulted from the cellos to the manager’s […]