classical music

A  tenor who was audibly below par, an extra who fell into an archaeological dig and a production that failed to justify its investment…. all went wrong at the New Year’s opening of Verdi’s Aida. […]

The French mezzo-soprano Katia Ledoux has gone on social media with a remarkably candid assessement of the perils of facing a fickle Vienna audience. There is good advice here for anyone having to appear before […]

Any guesses? He came into the world in West Hartlepool, the child of Polish-Jewish immigrants, and entered the Royal Academy of Music as a violinist. He came out a violist, the first to make a […]

The numeral 2025 is 45 x 45, a rare, square event in the calendar. The last such year was 1936, which was 44 x 44. Before that, 1849 Then 1764. The post It’s a square […]

The mezzo-soprano Regina Sarfaty, who has died at 90, never got picked to sing at the Met. She was picked by Santa Fe in 1957 while still a student at Juilliard and she went on […]

From Vienna to the world: We are delighted to announce that the 2026 New Year’s Concert will be conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin — marking his first time leading this world-renowned event. The artistic collaboration between […]

A high-class introspective reading of opus 9/3 from Isabelle Faust (Violin), Raphael Sachs (Viola) und Frank-Michael Guthmann (Cello). Doesn’t get much better. The post A Beethoven trio to close the year appeared first on Slippedisc.