An extremely rare interview with the grande dame of British pianism, heroine of the Blitz.
She also talks of making false crescendos to mask the noise of flying bombs. ‘When the bomb went away, I made a decrescendo.’
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On the day of the Met opening of Jake Heggie’s opera, Peter Mattei phoned in sick. Thomas Glass, winner of the 2019 National Council Auditions, was summoned to jump in. The post Last-minute Starbuck […]
We reported yesterday that Abigail Pogson, head of the Gateshead Glasshouse (formerly Sage), had refused to sign Nicholas Serota’s letter defending the Council’s box-ticking Let’s Create policy. Pogson, a Council member for the past three […]
Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, travels to a European festival that is something of a hidden gem: Rossini in Wildbad in Germany’s Black Forest. Friday night’s production of Rossini’s sparkling medieval ballad, Le Comte Ory, includes […]
