A $10 million endowment pledge to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will help support the ensemble’s artistic and educational efforts to broaden community engagement. “Our gift is an investment in the future of the Orchestra,” … » Read

What’s in a title? Maybe not as much as what’s in a name. Joshua Bell has been announced as the inaugural principal guest conductor of the New Jersey Symphony as of 2025-26 for four seasons. For that lofty title, he is obligated to … » Read

Fabio Luisi, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s music director and a veteran Wagnerian, is about to make the Texas city a destination for devotees of the German master’s four-opera saga. Beginning on Oct. 13, the DSO will present a … » Read

Violinist Randall Goosby will be the 2025 MAC (Multi Cultural Awareness Council) Music Innovator at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO). He succeeds British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason to fill the one-year appointment, which offers a … » Read

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) has appointed two new permanent musicians—Alyssa Katahara as principal harp (pictured) and James Vaughen as assistant principal trumpet—and promoted Jack Walters, with the DSO since 2017, to … » Read

Patrick Summers will step down as artistic and music director of the Houston Grand Opera at the close of the 2025-26 season. Hired by David Gockley in 1998, Summers has overseen the premieres of 11 works at HGO, long known for artistic … » Read

After 32 years, Astral Artists will close its doors in the coming months, a victim of Philadelphia’s increasingly perilous funding environment. Founded in 1992 by Vera Wilson, who retired several years ago, the organization was designed to … » Read

CARDIFF—Just when it seems to be thriving, musical Wales is in crisis. Welsh National Opera (WNO) in particular may not even survive the season. Wales is still governed from London, which has devolved the day-to-day domestic administration … » Read

The infamous Page Six of the New York Post has cited Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb as blaming critics for resisting opera that is accessible and thus panning it. He cites New York Times Chief Critic Zachary Woolfe’s review of … » Read

On Nov. 24 violinist Midori Komachi will premiere Imogen Holst’s Violin Concerto, a work composed in 1935 that languished in the archive at Britten Pears Arts in Aldeburgh until she discovered the manuscript and saw to its publication. … » Read