The Metropolitan Opera House will be hosting nine performances of a newly adapted version of Sting’s musical The Last Ship in June 2026. The production features a new book by Barney Norris and new and revised songs by Sting that enhance the … » Read

Chelsea Gallo , resident conductor of the Florida Orchestra (TFO) since 2023, has extended her contract through the 2026-27 season. She annually conducts more than 50 masterworks, pops, education, and community concerts and collaborates closely … » Read

The Montreal-based Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Center (AMACC) has named four composers—Hana Ajiashvili, Dalit Hadass Warshaw, Nicholas Denton Protsack, and Adrian Mocanu—as the 2026 Azrieli Music Prize (AMP) Laureates. Awarded … » Read

Classical music is becoming increasingly politicized, writes Ivan Hewett in The Telegraph . Despite the pretense that it can be above politics, a recent spate of concert disruptions has been “aimed at forcing the musicians and the audience … » Read

As of this week, Ben Robinson is the new general director and CEO of Kentucky Opera. An accomplished singer, stage director, and arts executive, Robinson most recently was general director of Anchorage Opera where, over his two-and-half-year … » Read

LONDON—Since its formation in 2016, Manchester Collective has won plaudits for its combination of imaginative programming and dynamic performances, often reaching out beyond the concert hall to warehouses, nightclubs, and festivals. The … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A rascally superhero born from a stone egg, the Monkey King is beloved in Chinese mythology, appearing in everything from a 16 th -century epic to modern comics, animated movies, and video games — even in poetry … » Read

The League of American Orchestras has a new VP of development in Sarah Generes, current development director at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music. She succeeds Marlah Bonner, who exited the post after about five years last August. … » Read

In a private ceremony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic dedicated the Hollywood Bowl’s stage to the legendary composer and conductor John Williams. It is the first such honor bestowed in the Bowl’s history, “Without John Williams, … » Read

LONDON–We have Covid to thank for Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new opera, a two-act piece inspired by Edith Nesbit’s novel The Railway Children . Locked down in 2020 with his partner Rachael Hewer, who is rather conveniently a … » Read