New online: Kaija Saariaho’s violin concerto

This week’s free Opera of the Week on slippedisc.com courtesy of OperaVision,is Il barbiere di Siviglia from Stockholm. Inspired by commedia dell’arte, this production of Rossini’s comic masterpiece from Royal Swedish Opera is not only […]

Daniele Gatti, pased over by La Scala for the Korean Myung Whun Chung, was announced this morning as music director of the Maggio Musicale theatre in Florence. He starts next year and and will remain […]

This is Teodor Currentzis, the Putin collaborator, conducting Bruckner’s 9th last night in Hamburg. The orchestra was his own Utopia pickup band. The post Sleeveless is the new conductor trend appeared first on Slippedisc.