Florida’s orchestras are having a banner year—if not necessarily in ticket sales, then certainly in fund raising.  In St. Petersburg, the Florida Orchestra just received $10 million from an anonymous donor, marking the single … » Read

Wigmore Hall is planning a two-week celebration of its 125 th anniversary for the end of May 2026. Twenty-four concerts across 14 days, many of them broadcast on BBC Radio, will feature some the world’s best instrumentalists and vocalists. … » Read

The Qatar Foundation (QF) and the Reina Sofía School of Music in Spain have announced the creation of a chair of Arab Studies as part of a 10-year partnership to use academic and artistic exchanges to promote the study and appreciation of … » Read

Alice Sara Ott's recording of John Field’s Complete Nocturnes is Apple Music Classical’s Album of the Year for 2025, proving to be the most popular recording on Apple Classical Top 100 , the “definitive” test of popularity … » Read

San Francisco Opera will receive $5 million a year from Jensen and Lori Huang, co-chairs of the company’s Monkey King Honorary Committee. The gift is helping to underwrite the recent premiere of composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry … » Read

It took Peter Wollny more than three decades to determine that two unsigned manuscripts he discovered at the Royal Library of Belgium while in graduate school at Harvard were the work of a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach. “This is a … » Read

Executive orders by Donald Trump restricting the use of federal grant money for projects that promote diversity, equity and inclusion have led several organizations to decline grants from their state arts councils. States arts council funds come … » Read

Welsh baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen won the first prize at the biennial Paris Opera Competition on Nov. 20 at Marigny Theatre. As a member of the International Opera Studio at Zürich Opera, Mann appears this year in Rigoletto , Un ballo in … » Read

The Met Opera stage had a few extra supernumeraries Friday night, as hecklers landed on stage during Act 1 of the updated, bus-and-truck Carmen   to protest the late right-wing billionaire David Koch, one of Lincoln Center’s biggest … » Read

The preliminary results for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s (PSO) 2024–2025 fiscal year are full of good news. PSO President & CEO Melia Tourangeau and Board Chair Anthony Bucci reported a $34.6 million operating budget with a … » Read