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Vsevolod Nemolyaev, who danced 55 seasons as a soloist at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, latterly as a ballet director, has died at 87. He was the brother of the actress, Svetlana Nemolyaeva. The post Soviet dance […]

Herbert Blomstedt, 97, is conducting the Czech Philharmonic with Katia and Marielle Labeque. The post Pic of the day: Me, and my girls appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Royal Opera’s “Jenufa” By Alastair Macaulay Leoš Janáćek’s opera “Jenůfa” – one of the great works of the human spirit – takes a tragic situation, deepens it, and then transcends it. The unmarried Jenůfa […]

The San Francisco Chronicle carries an obituary for Mark Izu, a composer and bassist who was a central figure in the Asian American arts movement. Mark, who died of colon cancer, was 70. He curated […]

The BBC has decided to abolish Drama on 3, a regular slot for radio plays. The broadcaster cites financial pressures and claims, rightly, that listeners turn to Radio 3 for classical music, not drama – […]

In a sign he is winding down his future availability for opera engagements, the German tenor has announced an end to his career-long representation by the New York firm of Zemsky/Green. Kaufmann’s personal manager Bruce […]

The Saxon soprano  Barbara Hoene has died, aged 80. She spent 36 years as a soloist of the Semper Oper in Dresden, where she was appointed  Kammersängerin, She married the violinist Klaus Hoene and retired […]

He’s not 70 til Sunday but the Big Berthas of German industry this morning awarded him the 2025 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. He will receive 250,000 Euros. Three composers – the Iranian Canadian Ashkan […]

Sidelined in the last round of label takeovers which saw Universal acquire Hypperion, Apple buy Bis and Klaus Heymann take over Chandos, slow-moving Sony Classical has just bought the venerable Czech label Supraphon. This is […]

Classical recording people have been sharing memories of Bill Holland, former CEO of Universal Classics and Jazz, who died at the end of the year, aged 81. Bill started out sweeping floors in an Oxford […]