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After a lengthy audition process, the King’s Singers have chosen Piers Connor Kennedy as their next bass. He replaces Jonathan Howard, who departs after 14 years. Kennedy has held a composing residency at St Peter’s […]

The London Evening Standard is to stop printing five days a week and will aim to appear, possibly, just once a week. When I arrived at the Standard as Assistant Editor in 2002, we put […]

The Beverly Sills Artist Award 2024 has gone to Leah Hawkins, a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Last season she sang the principal role of Louise/Betty in the Met premiere of […]

Conductor Ivan Fischer writes: It is with deep sadness that I share the grief of the family and the whole Hungarian music world: we have lost György Konrád, Pamacs, the wonderful violinist and friend. As […]

Arts Cancel England has just forced English Touring Opera to relocate to former steeltown Sheffield. Are they missing something here? Sheffield was chosen by ACE as the home for a National Centre for Popular Music. […]

The international soprano Claire Rutter has been made to suffer by persistent phone users. She tells slippedisc.com: I was rehearsing a Verdi Requiem in Liverpool Cathedral a few weeks ago. A guy started filming, a […]

Kin – National Theatre At Home Click here to watch In 1932, Leah and her family escaped persecution and embarked on a journey from Yemen to Palestine.Ninety years later, her grandson Amit Lahav, Artistic Director […]

Virginia Opera is searching for a new CEO as Peggy Kriha Miller handed in her notice in after less than five years. Terms are getting shorter, conditions tougher. Miller says she wants to prioritise her […]

A student from Vietnam, Linh Hong Nguyen, died when a car mounted a sidewalk in Red Hook, NY as she walked home from receiving her master’s degree at Bard College. Her tragic death was confirmed […]

The British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig, who pleaded guilty to three offences of soliciting a person he believed to be underage on a gay dating app, was given a 14-month sentence suspended for two years at […]