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The Conservatory owns the Askonas Holt and Opus 3 agencies. Here’s what can happen: Selected from a pool of SFCM students and recent graduates, Lindsey Ha will work with Askonas Holt for the summer of […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: I have no problems with impressionism. It’s what French artists do off the cuff when they can’t be bothered with sketches, what French composers do in a wishy-washy […]

Edwin Outwater, music director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Canada from 2007 to 2017, has been named Principal Guest Conductor and curator of the BBC Concert Orchestra. The chief conductor is Anna Maria Helsing, Not […]

Oksana Lyniv, Simone Young, Nathalie Stutzmann. Some things do change. The post Three conductors are rehearsing at Bayreuth appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Musicians Union is balloting orchestra and chorus members over 15 percent pay cuts and job losses. The cuts were enforced by policy decisions of Arts Cancel England (ACE) and its Welsh satrap, ACW. An […]

Albert Herring, brought to you by Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision is librettist Eric Crozier’s take on a story by Maupassant and transforms it into a quintessentially English comedy. Britten’s music characterises the inhabitants with a […]

Here’s the latest response from the besieged Dean  and Chapter to the Bishop’s demand for an inquiry over NDAs, bullying and general mismanagement allegations: Winchester Cathedral welcomes Bishop Mounstephen’s Review. We are committed to fully […]

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk – Digital Theatre Click here to rent Rent £7.99 for 48hrs Perhaps you’ve seen them floating over a Russian village? Or perhaps you’ve seen her toppling forward, arms full of […]

A probing San Francisco Standard report by Adam Lashinsky, published today, into the turmoil at San Francisco Symphony raises many questions about the depth of its financial and managerial woes in the wake of Esa-Pekka […]

Slippedisc readers who have made various complaints to the chief executive of the CBSO are receieving identical letters in reply, regardless of what they wrote to her. Here’s the pro forma response: Dear . . . […]