America’s newest music director, Carlos Izcaray, went public last year on his experiences in his home country, where he maintains that the regime routinely tortures

Yo-ho, to-ho, it’s Birgit Nilsson. Coming to your bank October 2015.

An editor mentioned she was finding it hard to find new releases for review this month. Others chimed in that the record industry’s output is

Fred Lingen has died. Holland owes him its opera house. He founded the Wagner Society in 1961 and was artistic adviser to the Friends of

Valery Gergiev is due to give two performances this weekend with the Mariinsky Orchestra at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he will receive the 2015 UMS

A splendid photograph by Fritz Curzon from the current Andrea Chenier shows Rosalind Plowright in pursuit of Eva Westbroek. Rosalind used to be an international

Latest reports from Donetsk say Ukrainian forces have been pushed back from Sergei Prokofiev international airport by Russian-backed ‘rebels’. Both sides in this sordid conflict

WFMT Chicago discovered the artistry of Vera Gornostaeva last year through a pair of immigrant enthusiasts who had pressed her old LPs onto CD. The

Taiwanese violinist Tseng Yu-chien, also known as ‘Benny’, won the first Singapore international violin contest, taking home US$50,000. Second ($25k) was fellow-Taiwanese Richard Lin, his best

OPERA NORTH’S ASTONISHING AND ENTHRALLING RING CYCLE TOURS UK IN 2016     Leeds Town Hall (23 April – 21 May & 24 – 29

The funeral of Vera Gornostaeva is being held today in Moscow. In an exclusive interview for Slipped Disc, piano master Sergei Babayan remembers his teacher,