The Bayreuth Festival has closed on 98.1 percent season capacity, exceeding expectations after an initial slow tocket sale. Some 56,000 people attended the 29 performances. The post Bayreuth hits 98 percent appeared first […]
The Canadian soprano Joyce El-Khoury will sing a role debut as Hélène in Verdi’s Sicilian Vespers at Covent Garden next month, her first attemot at the role. She replaces Marina Rebeka who is unwell. Speranza […]
The Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski is heading to Lviv ito open the National Philharmonic season on 13 September with a piano concerto by Borys Lyatoshynsky. He is donating his fee to the orchestra. The conductor […]
After a year’s probation, the Prague Philharmonia has apponted Pavla Tesařová as its new concertmaster. Pavla, 26, is founding leader of the Ševčík Quartet. The post New concertmaster in Prague appeared first on Slippedisc.
Mark Simpson (Photo: Matthew Johnson) Composer and clarinettist Mark Simpson has been announced as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s (RLPO) new Artist in Residence for the 25/26 season. Simpson’s residency is launched with the UK […]
South Molton Church This October the Two Moors Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary with events encompassing Exmoor (1-5 October 2025) and Dartmoor (8-12 October 2025). Since 2001, the Two Moors Festival has evolved into one of […]
Steel City Choristers performing at Berlin Cathedral Earlier this month, Steel City Choristers went on its first international tour – a week-long trip singing in Berlin and Leipzig. The choir of 24 children and 15 […]
Fox-13 has more details on the background for the ICE arrest of Utah violinist John Shin: Shin’s attorney, Adam Crayk, was able to clarify Shin’s immigration status. “He came in under his father’s student visa […]
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 […]
