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Our agony aunt’s mailbag this week is bulging with ‘take me home’ cries: Dear Alma, I am a 16 year old violinist at a summer music camp. We have been here for 2 weeks and […]

The headline in Vienna’s Die Presse on Matthias Davids’s new production at the 2025 Bayreuth Festival reads: ‘As if Monty Python had been the inspiration for the “Meistersinger”. Why does that cliché ring a bell? […]

At yesterdday’s opening of the Salzburg Festival, a speech by Minister of Culture Andreas Babler at the Felsenreitschule was interrupted by shouts of “Stop the genocide” and “Free Gaza now”, and the unfurl;ing of banners. The […]

 The Gospel at Colonus has built a fervent following over the past four decades or so. This superlative take on Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s gospel retelling of Sophocles’ tragedy of Oedipus boasts a powerhouse […]

Message from the international pianist: Dear Vueling Airlines, I am writing to express my deep shock and outrage regarding the incident that occurred on July 23, 2025, involving your staff and a group of fifty […]

Message received: The Leonard Bernstein family is devastated to report Alexander Bernstein’s passing on July 22. Father of Anya, brother of Nina and Jamie, devoted uncle, loyal cousin, and beloved friend to so many, Alexander […]

Who knew? or this? The post Schoenberg’s folk music and Stockhausen’s dead horse appeared first on Slippedisc.

There are many artworks entitled The Kiss – Rodin, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, etc – but this one is remarkable for being the very first on-screen kiss. It happened in April 1896, between actors May Irwin and […]

With, or without, the forced smile. Enjoy. The post Most fun music by Shostakovich appeared first on Slippedisc.

Some weeks ago, we reported the death in war of the renowned Ukrainian tenor Vladyslav Gorai. Two of his close friends, soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska and baritone Vitaliy Bilyi came together in a memorial performance of […]