From an article by Dalya Alberge in today’s Sunday Telegraph: ENO faces call to cancel the contract of André de Ridder, who said he was ‘very excited’ to be joining the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra […]
From my latest monthly essay in The Critic, out now: One morning in 2007 I knocked at the door of a Berlin villa and was admitted by staff. I was shown into a music room whose […]
Philippe Jordan last night conducted his final appearance as music director at the Vienna State Opera and says he won’t be back in the forseeable future. No successor has been named. It has been reported […]
The Barber of Seville opened at the Opéra de Paris last nigtht without its intended Rosina. The Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina was unable to obtain a visa in time to enter France. She says: Dear […]
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I don’t want to make music any more. I go up on stage every day, tune up with my colleagues, look out into the festival audience – and don’t […]
Roald Dahl Giant is another kind of triumph – a brilliant play about a loathsome man. Roald Dahl, who wrote Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox and many other grotesque, darkly comic and sometimes […]
Stereophonic is a triumph. It’s that rare theatrical event where everything comes together to make an evening in the theatre both new and timeless. At first sight, the premise is simple: a rock band is making their second […]
Click here to subscribe For those of us who might be missing top flight classical ballet by the top dancers, I thought a dose of the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden would hit the spot. Here are […]
A performance of her tape-and-orchestra piece from WDR. I find it rather beautiful. The post Saariaho’s delusions live on appeared first on Slippedisc.
This week OperaVision brings Slippedisc readers coverage of the Ring Award in Graz, Austria. The RING AWARD is the foremost international competition for emerging talent in music theatre direction, set and costume design. The Grand Finale […]
