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The erudite critic and provocateur Benoît Duteurtre, presenter of Astonish Me, Benoit on France Musique died at his rural holiday home of a heart attack this week, aged 64. An early groupie of Boulez, Stockhausen […]

NEXT TO NORMAL – Wyndham’s Theatre When this landmark musical debuted on Broadway in 2010, it won three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama – one of only ten musicals in history to receive this prestigious honour. It […]

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has announced the death of baritone Alan Watt, a valued member of the teaching staff from 1995 to 2019. Born in Aberdeen, Watt sang leading roles with British companies performed […]

Bobby Short Live at Cafe Carlyle Bobby Short ‘invented’, perhaps ‘defined’ would be a better word, intimate cabaret for the New Yorkers of our own recent times.  Urbane, elegant, perfectly groomed, he played the songs […]

The international opera star Aida Garifullina gave a concert in the Oxford Union. Normally, she’d bring her own pianist. Here, she was accompanied by Christian Wilson, Director of Music at Keble College. The post Look, […]

Dear Alma On our last tour I lent 200 Euros to the concertmaster to buy a new Eton shirt. We came home a month ago and he has shown no sign of paying me back. […]

Who knew they still played the Tchaikovsky concerto? The post Khatia does it with Klaus appeared first on Slippedisc.

£57,735.56 per annum 33 hours per week We are currently recruiting for a permanent member of our Music Staff team to work as a repetiteur and to coach ROH Principals and Guest Principals to work […]

Welcome to the most successful springboard to a conducting career: The four conductors selected by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil as 2024/25 Dudamel Fellows are Holly Hyun Choe, born in South […]

The pianist was added today to a Justice Ministry list of Russians who have spoken out againnst Putin’s war in Ukraine. It’s a list of honour. The post Russians name Kissin as a foreign agent […]