Message from the Gran Teatre del Liceu: The selection process (for music director) is being conducted in collaboration with the Orchestra, and François-Xavier Roth was a name considered in the initial stages along with other […]
The Russian diva indulges a midnight binge-eating urge in Budapest on her social media. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anna Netrebko (@anna_netrebko_yusi_tiago) The post Anna Netrebko goes for a late-night […]
The national company has replaced a Peter Grimes production in December with a topical new staging of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. Alexander Joel conducts. The post Israel Opera stages War Requiem appeared […]
America’s mezzo diva has come out for the Veep. ‘If Trump is elected,’ she says, ‘we will no longer recognise our country’. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Joyce DiDonato […]
We regret to report the death of the Goucestersshire-born violinist and composer Ben Powell, a rising force in Los Angeles film-scoring scene. Ben died of cancer, a day after his 38th birthday. He led Hans […]
A new front has been opened in the diversity wars by Kristina Kolbe, assistant professor in Sociology of Arts and Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a visiting fellow at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. In […]
We’ve just seen a report from Donaueschingen, the world’s oldest new music festival (if that’s not a contradiction in terms), dating back to 1921. The festival has been fading for decades. This year’s title was […]
The Baltimore Sun today scrapped its features department, reassigning its remaining writers to the news department. This leaves the 30th-ranked US city without any reporting on its busy music scene, museums, galleries and performing arts […]
Three seconds in, a Trump campaign video (here) uses a flash shot of the Dutch violinist and a teenaged singer in its opening sequence. The clip, taken without permission, has been circulated by Twitter owner […]
Let’s see it try the Elgar concerto. Watch here. The post Watch: Robot plays cello solo with orchestra appeared first on Slippedisc.
.jpeg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "The Glyndebourne Prom: Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with a young cast on superb form")
