Shakespeare Click here to sign up As far as I’m concerned, it’s Shakespeare’s birthday every day. There’s so much Shakespeare available now online from a multiplicity of websites. Starry casts for Much Ado About Nothing (David Tennant), The […]
Hanna Balcer, 14, who went missing in outer London, was brought home by police at 6am yesterday after being recognised by a member of the public from media appeals. Her mother said: ‘I can’t put […]
Shocking news has arrived of the death of Pierre Audi, director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival and one of the most influential creators of new works of opera. Pierre, who died in Beijing without warning during […]
AskonasHolt has signed the Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, winner of the 2024 Leeds piano competition. He is from British Colombia, of Hungarian-Ukrainian heritage. The post Leeds winner finds agent appeared first on Slippedisc.
One of opera’s greatest depictions of impossible love, Werther is based on Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Massenet thought long and hard about adapting Goethe’s story of a melancholy poet whose love for a married […]
The Delaware Symphony has named Michelle Di Russo as its next music director. She’s from Argentina, a former Dudamel Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a Taki-Alsop graduate. The post Baton round: Argentine takes […]
Playing in the Orchestre symphonique de Québec for the past three years, Marlène Ngalissamy has been named principal bassoon of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Born in Moscow, Marlène moved to Canada at ten years and […]
This one he wrote for Piatigorsky. It makesits first appearnce in the 1946 film, Deception. The post Watch the other Korngold concerto appeared first on Slippedisc.
From pianist Frank Dupree: Thank you to everyone at IMG Artists for being part of my journey over the past 13 years! Special thanks to my managers Stefan P. Escher and Emma Farmer for their […]
The conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra has issued a video, mourning principal oboe Victor Aviat, who has died in Berlin, aged 42, of an aggressive brain tumour. Watch Ivan’s tribute here. The post […]
