The 2018 awards for US and Canadian singers have just concluded. The big winners are: GEORGE LONDON AWARDS ($10,000 each): Lawson Anderson, bass-baritone (31, Atlanta,

The Australian pilot David Tong, who died in a crash in December, had once been a star pianist at Juilliard, where he held the Vladimir Horowitz scholarship.

One of the most famous guitar makers faces bankruptcy after 116 plucking years. It is still making a billion dollars this year. Read here.

Somehow omitted from my Spectator interview with Jonas… it’s Forza del Destino.

On BBC Radio 4 this morning, Chi-chi Nwanoku thanked Slipped Disc for help towards the recovery of her double-bass bow, which she had left on

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Some 15 years ago I was asked by one of the London orchestras to curate a series titled

The soprano, who has taken a lively interest in neuroscience, has been speaking on a Stanford Medicine podcast. During our conversation we talked about the

This is a new one, by Oded Zehavi, conducted from the mandolin…   And here’s another one, just sent in:

Handel’s Ariodante has never been done before at the Vienna Opera, so it makes sense that most of the singers are either on debut or