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Second maestro scratches Tanglewood

Second maestro scratches Tanglewood

The loss of Esa-Pekka Salonen early in the festival was a serious blow. Now Zubin Mehta has pulled out. He has ‘personal reasons’ for not conducting Beethoven’s 9th symphony. Here’s the official notice: Regrettably, guest […]

Bayreuth flips Gatti

Bayreuth flips Gatti

There’s a pair of last-minute changes in Bayreuth’s Meistersinger tonight. Conductor Daniele Gatti is replaced by Axel Kober. Hans Sachs will be sung by Michael Volle, jumping in for the still-unwell Georg Zeppenfeld. What goes […]

Nabucco? Nothing to do with Jews

Nabucco? Nothing to do with Jews

The new production at Arena di Verona has been totally detached from Verdi’s story of Jewish exiles in Babylon. The costumes are space suits, the stage set looks like a post-modern, peripheral bus terminus and […]

Bregenz breaks up stage after heavy rain

Bregenz breaks up stage after heavy rain

Two torrential downpours cost the Austrian laketop festival half a million dollars in ticket refunds. They’ve done the sums and started dismantling the Freischütz set ahead of schedule. Bit of a washout. Read here. The […]

Why would people tune their streaming to ‘sleep’

Why would people tune their streaming to ‘sleep’

They’re still doing it on Apple Classical this week. Here’s the global top ten, exclusive to slippedisc.com:   1            Sleep    Max Richter 2            Mozart: Violin Concertos           Chloe Chua, Ziyu He, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf […]