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He tried to lift it, but missed the top notes. Photos from JK’s social media today. The post Jonas Kaufmann, piano shifter appeared first on Slippedisc.

One opera house after another is putting up replacements for Lise Davidsen, who is expecting twins and will be unavailable from March 2025 until the middle of 2026. Barcelona is among thefirst. Asmik Grigorian is […]

January 26th is the 100th anniversary of the birth of  Paul Newman (1925-2008), American actor, director, racing car driver, entrepreneur and philanthropist. A noted political liberal, Newman was outspoken in support of causes such as […]

The final concert  of the Concurso Tenor Viñas Competition at which the winners perform accompanied by the Gran Teatre del Liceu Symphony Orchestra. Founded in 1963 by Jacint Vilardell to commemorate the Catalan tenor Francisco […]

The revamped London Transport Museum in Covent Garden is hiring music students to perform on its wonderfully nerdish historic omnibuses. The musicians are drawn from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Academy of […]

The German film composer Hans Zimmer is in discussion with officials in Riyadh on a number of projects, including a reinstrumentation lof their national anthem. They must have really loved Dune. More here. The post […]

Edinburgh Council, led by Labour Mayor Jane Meagher, has announced measures to limit visits to the city: From 24 July 2026, a 5% fee will be applied to the cost of overnight accommodation in Edinburgh, […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The seventh was the least understood of Mahler’s symphonies and the last to get recorded. Bruno Walter, Mahler’s closest apostle, never performed it. Otto Klemperer, next in line, […]

Dear Alma, I am in my final year of my music degree, and I have a problem with my assigned pianist. She is the wife of a Professor, and the worst pianist that they have […]

The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum celebrates its 100th anniversary with a reinstallation of its extensive collection of art and design. Newly interpreted galleries on three floors reveal connections across the Wing’s increasingly hemispheric holdings—from […]