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Cracks are widening at Welsh National Opera. Two technical directors resigned this weekend. They were preceded by the head of HR who once said ‘I’ve never been to an opera and have no intention of […]

The English National Opera board has appointed Jenny Mollica as Chief Executive of ENO and the London Coliseum. She has been Interim CEO for the past nine months. No surprises there. Mollica was previously Director […]

The Chinese-US pianist Yuja Wang is returning for six more immersive concerts at the David Hockney exhibition in London this September. She says: ‘The concerts last year at Lightroom were completely different to any other […]

Munich’s new production of Puccini’s shocker is set in 1975 in Rome where Pier Paolo Pasolini is filming ‘The 120 Days of Sodom’. The Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó opens his interpretation with fascist soldiers leading […]

Music in the Midnight Sun – Toronto Symphony  For many of us, the Arctic exists only as a fantasy of snow and polar bears and endangered icebergs. Ignorant as ever, I didn’t realise that people […]

After five years with the biggest vacancy in the orchestral world, the Boston Symphony today presented Nathan Cole as its new concertmaster. He is presently first associate concertmaster with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. More follows. […]

The latest musicians to win public auditions for management are: Amiri Harewood (piano, pictured) Fibonacci Quartet (string quartet) James Morley (cello) The post Concert Artists/YCAT take on 3 more appeared first on Slippedisc.

We are hearing from members of the National Symphony Orchestra who are outraged at nhaving to accompany a concert by Killer Mike & The Mighty Midnight Revival. The official blurb reads: A never-before-seen concert experience! […]

The festival, which lost all of its staff six months ago, has named Jack Bazalgette as artistic director from 2o25. Bazalgette is a Hackney-based conductor who has worked as chorusmaster with the Prague Symphony Orchestra […]

This weekend saw record online sales for the 2024 Proms. The following concerts were the hottest tickets: First Night of the Proms conducted by Elim Chan (19 July), Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco (20 […]