Watch: It’s a Schoenberg opening night

The orchestra takes up a six-day residency this week with chief conductor Kirill Petrenko and pianist Yuja Wang. The residency includes four orchestra concerts at the Shanghai Grand Theatre with works by Johannes Brahms, Richard […]

After 24 years as concertmaster, the English violinist Katherine Hunka is leaving the Irish Chamber Orchestra to pursue other challenges. She explains: ‘I always wanted to avoid cynicism.’   The post Leader quits Irish appeared […]

In 2017 https://slippedisc.com/2017/06/exclusive-opera-critic-is-hit-with10000-euro-libel-fine/ that the Romanian critic Alexandru Patrascu, a contributor to the London-based Opera magazine, lost a libel case brought against him by the conductor Tiberiu-Ionuț Soare, ex-head of Bucharest National Opera, and the […]