We hear that the French star Ludovic Tézier has withdrawn from rehearsals and from the first night of the Bastille Opera’s new Rheinegold. He has flu.
He is to be replaced by the Scottish bass-baritone Iain Paterson (pic), who is married to the Paris Opera’s head of casting, Sophie Joyce Paterson.
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Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim has written an eye-opening feature in the NY Times on the growing recognition for musicians who play for patients in hospital, and the development of professional standards. …on a brisk January morning […]
In the past few minutes it has been decided that the next chief at La Scala will be the Korean conductor Myung Whun Chung. Catch your breath. He will start in 2027. The favourite to […]
The co-founder of Belgium’s Crescendo magazine, Michelle Debra, has died at 73. She presided over the magazine’s transition from print to full-digital. The post Music magazine founder, RIP appeared first on Slippedisc.
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Anna Clyne in residence, collaborations with Jess Gillam, Alice Sarah Ott & Rushil Ranjan, Britten's War Requiem at Coventry Cathedral: the CBSO 2026/27 season")
