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The Proms have had a lucky year, with only one major cancellation. Here’s a bigger one, just in: Sir Simon Rattle must undergo routine surgery in the next few days so, regretfully, he has had […]

The polemicist Stephen Pollard argues in the Spectator that Covent Garden was right to hire her. … I review opera, and so I had a decision to take: should I remain true to my principles […]

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.

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 […]