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The death has been announced of the prolific set designer Pantelis Dessyllas, one of the busiest in Vienna for the past half century. Pantelis was 89. His Fledermaus is showing tonight at the Volksoper and […]

He was 82 and the California group’s main songwriter from its inception in 1961. The post Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys has died appeared first on Slippedisc.

Another Canadian orchestra has plumped for a Canadian conductor. Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra has installed Simon Rivard, starting this month. Rivard, 35, is from Montreal and he’s also MD of Edmonton Opera and the  Orchestre de […]

Artistic planning chief Cristina Rocca has written to subscribers, telling them the CSO MusicNOW has been suspended next season. ‘The series will be paused to take time to imagine new possibilities for connecting Chicago audience […]

Rachel Reeves has lopped 5 percent off the budget of the Department of Culture Media Sport and Digital, amid persistent reports that the entire DCMS is to be dismantled. It’s not clear how the cut […]

From next season’s offers at Battersea Arts Centre, south London: The World Premiere of EXXY by Dan Daw Creative Projects, co-produced with BAC Dan, a queer, crippled artist transports the audience to the Australian outback […]

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Yesterday’s school shooting, which took 11 lives, has paralysed Austria’s second largest city. All public entertainments have been called off this week, starting with Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the opera. Across the rest of Austria, […]

  Colonel Arnald Gabriel, a war hero, became conductor of the US Air Force Band. His musicians esteeked him. Watch. The post US musicians fly in for conductor’s 100th birthday appeared first on Slippedisc.

New is just in that Hamburg Ballet has terminated its director Demis Volpi amid recent talk of a toxic work environment.  Volpi succeeded the long-serving John Neumeier a year ago. Summary dismissal is hiughly unusual […]