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Dear Alma, A summer festival that I have been a part of for a number of years has had a change in artistic leadership. I was a loyal performer, and was surprised that I was […]

Il viaggio a Reims was Rossini’s last Italian opera and the first he wrote in France for its Paris premiere in 1825 as part of the festivities for the coronation of Charles X. Conceived for the […]

One woman has created more opera companies in Britain than anyone since Georg Frideric Handel. Her name is Wasfi Kani and the white male establishment has done everything to put her down. In our conversation […]

The press release below reports the rare capitulation of a professional symphony orchestra to the political bias of a solo pianist. It would be helpful if the MSO were to amplify the ‘safety concerns’ that […]

Blackbeats: Cubism Reimagined This is a fascinating illustrated lecture from the Met Museum, given by Richard J. Powell, Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University as he rethinks the art of Cubism through the historical and […]

PR release: Jalimpa, a singer-songwriter raised on Suo-Oshima Island, Japan, has been certified by Guinness World Records as the “Youngest Solo Artist to Release an Album” for her debut album “Nonsense Makes Sense”, which she […]

Tweet by composer Samuel Andreyev: A composer friend attended a programming meeting in Vancouver during which the possibility of one of his works being played was raised. ‘Sorry,’ they said, ‘we’re only doing DEI pieces’. […]

Lindsay McMurdo, a critic at the Edinburgh Festival, hits the elusive nail bang on the head: And therein lies both a small part of the appeal and a large part of the problem, at least […]

The Cleveland Orchestra has received a $5 million gift from the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation in support of the Kelvin Smith Family Chair held by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. Welser-Möst will step down when […]

The widely admired Christoph Nel died on Monday, aged 80. Working mostly in Frankfurt, he also directed in Stuttgart, Hannover, Munich, Mannheim and Berlin. The post German opera director, RIP appeared first on Slippedisc.