Paul Van Nevel, founder of Belgium’s early-music Huelgas Ensemble in 1971, has named his successor. The German tenor Achim Schulz, a singer in the ensemble for two decades, will gradually take up conducting responsibilities. Van […]
The general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, Peter Gelb, has reiterated his attack on the soprano Anna Netrabko as an emblem of the Putin regime and it invasion of Ukraine. Netrebko, 53, is due to […]
The Edinburgh International Festival has just ended with its best box-office in a decade. The final tally was 88 percent ticket sales to 111,000 spectators from 91 countries. The Fringe did less well, albeit on […]
The US conductor Teddy Abrams has signed on for three more years as music director of the Louisville Orchestra. Abrams, 38, has been there since 2013. The post Just in: Teddy stays at […]
In ongoing turmoil at the Washington DC performing arts center, director of dance programming Jane Raleigh and two of her staff were fired just before the weekend. According to the NY Times, they had been […]
The Apple top ten, licensed exclusively to slippedisc.com, has remained static through the summer. In the top spot is Max Richter ‘s sleeptime-time. Second is an altogether unheralded recording of Mozart concertos by Chloe Chua […]
Students at the Curtis Institute have sent us a protest they have circulated over staff changes at the elite music college. More that 150 students have backed the petition. You read it here first: Following […]
The acting Head of the Komi Republic Rostislav Goldstein has opened negotiations with the artistic and general director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev on opening a branch of the Mariinsky Theater in Komi, a […]
Austrian media are swooning over a morning Wagner concert in Salzburg by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by the Met’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin. ‘This is the real Viennese Wagner,’ they sigh. Yannick is due to conduct the […]
Dear Alma, I was wondering why there is this fad where musicians play orchestral music by heart. It brings nothing to the music! The musicians don’t get paid a soloist’s or a chamber music fee […]
