2025 is the bicentenary of the birth of the singer, librettist and composer Hervé [Louis-Auguste Florimond Ronger (1825-1892)], a man responsible for a wide selection of opérette and opéra-bouffe that have rather dropped out of the […]
CBSO at New Street Station in August 2024 (Photo: Hannah Fathers) The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) returns this Summer with the second-edition of CBSO in the City, a week-long musical takeover running from […]
Pablo Picasso Click here This is a documentary about the early life of the boy who became one of the most famous and influential painters in the world. This is the rise of Pablo Ruiz, […]
Looking at Nicola Alaimo’s repertoire and performances, his sheer number of Donizetti roles is only equalled by those of his Rossini performances; h is a major interpreter. The first song, Al campo della gloria, has […]
A video published by the widow of Alexei Navalny, murdered in a Putin prison, has issued a video calling on the EU to maintain its ban on the Putin conductor Valery Gergiev. It describes Gergiev […]
Message received: The Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra mourns the loss of its honorary member Prof. Walther Schulz, the one on the morning of 9.7. has passed away peacefully. Walther Schulz was one of the most […]
No performance at Wiesbaden tonight for the Rheingau Musik Festival. The post Yuja drops out appeared first on Slippedisc.
Waterperry Opera Festival, near Oxford, has appointed John Savournin as CEO and Artistic Director from September. Savournin is an active bass-baritone with leading UK opera companies. The post Bass-baritone to run opera festival appeared first […]
The chair of the Elgar Society has notified members of the death of Diana McVeagh, a noted authority on the music of Edward Elgar and a biographer of Gerald Finzi. Diana was 98. Her interests […]
A reader points out: The quiet resignation of Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz, Jason Moran, leaves only classical artists on the Center’s artistic payroll: Gianandrea Noseda, Steven Reineke, Carlos Simon, Jennifer Koh, Francesca Zambello […]
