Hilary Hahn cancels three more months
The US violinist Hilary Hahn, who has withdrawn from the BBC Proms and other festivals, will not be back before November. She explains: Dear Fans and Friends, While I thought I was fully recovered from […]
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Dudamel hires Cate Blanchett for Beethoven
From the LA Phil: The LA Phil today announced a major addition to its 2025/26 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall: Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett will appear as narrator in four performances of Beethoven’s Egmont in February 2026 […]
Breaking: Julian Wachner is held in jail for child porn
The former music director of Trinity Church Wall Street, Julian Wachner, is being held in jail in Indianapolis on preliminary charges related to child exploitation and child pornography, Fox59 reports. The description of the charge, […]
Just in: HK Phil musicians shun new management
We’ve had this alarm call at slippedisc from musicians of the Hong Kong Philharmonic: Tomorrow or over the weekend, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will announce Bernhard Fleischer as Chief Executive and Patrick Ren as […]
Palestine flag rises at Rossini festival
A critic at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro informs us that an enormous Palestine flag was unfurled across the entire stage on the closing night of Cambiale de Matrimonio. Our observer says: ‘After the enthusiastic […]
Just in: Hilary cancels Prom
The US violinist Hilary Hahn has pulled out of the BBC Proms next week with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, due to an ongoing injury’. She was due to play the Dvorak concerto. Isabelle Faust jumps […]
The sound of Carnival: in advance of this year’s Notting Hill Carnival I chat to Eversely Mills the band manager of Metronomes Steel Orchestra about the sounds and traditions of steel bands
The Notting Hill Carnival this year is from Saturday 23 August to Monday 25 August and a big feature, as ever, will be the Steel Bands with the Steel Band Competition on the Saturday and […]
Offenbach’s Rhine fairies get to tread the boards at Battersea Arts Centre as Gothic Opera gives the UK stage premiere of Die Rheinnixen
Offenbach wrote his four-act romantic opera, Les fées du Rhin in 1864, for the Hofoper in Vienna where it was performed in a German translation as Die Rheinnixen. The tenor Alois Ander was ill and […]
Ruth Leon recommends… You’re Nothing Without Me – Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless
Cagney and Lacey This is such an enjoyable duet – the two stars of Cagney and Lacey having fun with a song from the wonderful musical, City of Angels, for charity, at the STAGE gala in 1999. City of […]
Colombian soprano Julieth Lozano gets into the spirit of the carnival for circus opera – Le Carnaval de Venise by Campra
Julieth Lozano in rehearsal getting ready for her aerial moves…. Vache Baroque is celebrating its fifth anniversary by returning to its home, The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, to perform André Campra’s little-known opera, Le […]
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