LONDON–Back in April the BBC Proms happily launched its 2026 season featuring an extensive celebration of American music to mark 250 years, apparently undaunted by Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster. … » Read

For her August 2nd performance as Violetta in La Traviata , Georgian soprano Ana Oniani [pictured] won the Verbier Festival Academy's  2026 Prix Yves Paternot as its most accomplished and promising young musician. The prize includes HF … » Read

MENLO PARK, CA – Music@Menlo sallied forth this summer in a mode of remembrance, for it was the final season in which the two founders, pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel, would lead their 24-year-old festival. But it … » Read

Symphony orchestras in Michigan, Texas, and Louisiana are welcoming new administrative leaders in the coming months. The Grand Rapids Symphony (GRSO) has selected Agnieszka Rakhmatullaev as its next president & CEO, effective September … » Read

LONDON—This July 28 BBC Prom at London’s Royal Albert Hall was a welcome opportunity to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo conduct his fellow countryman Sibelius. It also boasted the anticipated UK … » Read

Director Anna D. Shapiro is to be the next Richard Rodgers dean of the Juilliard drama division, effective next month. Drama's enrollment averages 72 students, college level and above, at any given time, out of the school’s total undergrad … » Read

On Aug. 21, Mandle Cheung will step onto the podium in London’s Alexandra Palace to conduct the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No.2, Resurrection . This won’t be the first time that the … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—Director Keturah Stickann’s delightfully entertaining new production of Handel’s Rinaldo for West Edge Opera turns on a simple but probing observation. The opera’s libretto, drawn like so many Baroque plots … » Read

Musicologist Linda Fairtile spends her days running the Parsons Music Library at University of Richmond; her nights she devotes to studying the scores and correspondence of famous composers. A favorite—Giacomo Puccini—presented a … » Read

The spirit of Richard Strauss must be smiling on Leon Botstein and his annual SummerScape festival at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: The new production of Die ägyptische Helena , which ended its five-performance run on August 2, … » Read