The Joachim violin competition has a rotten record in producing winners. Over 33 years, it has failed to deliver a world-conquering soloist. For several years, as we documented on slippedisc.com, the competition was dominated by […]
The Royal Opera informs us that Eva-Maria Westbroek has withdrawn from all performances of Festen ‘due to personal reasons’. The new opera by Mark Anthony Turnage, based on the Danish cult film, does not premiere […]
The Vienna State Opera is about to open a sideline space for schoolchildren and young people. It is called NEST. In overall charge is VSO intendant Bogdan Roscic. What is described as NEST’s’project development’ is […]