The New York Philharmonic has announced its 2023–24 Season, Jaap van Zweden’s last hurrah as the orchestra’s music director. It's a program strong in new music, commissions, and premieres, with plenty of women on the podium. … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—Scintillating and droll, potent and puckish, William Kentridge’s multi-valenced chamber opera-cum-film SIBYL had a buoyantly received United States premiere March 17 at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. The ovation was … » Read

From a 700-year-old Spanish monastery to London’s Westminster Abbey, it seems that religious institutions are opening their arms at last to welcome girls. Last week, The Guardian reported that women and girls are to be invited to form a new … » Read

SHANGHAI—The Chinese Authority has announced a list of the best orchestras in China. “Music of Our Age” is both a campaign and a domestic touring project, overseen and funded by the Ministry of Publicity (aka Propaganda) in … » Read

Young Concert Artists (YCA) has announced that Alistair Coleman will be their 2023 composer-in-residence. Coleman, who hails from Washington, DC, was selected out of nearly 150 applications for the position that comes with a three-year management … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera has been ordered to pay over $200,000 in compensation to Anna Netrebko after the cancelation of a number of her performances last year. The company had taken the step after the Russian soprano declined to denounce Vladimir … » Read

Senior U.S. composer John Adams has joined the growing chorus of disapproval at the BBC’s decision to axe its elite choir, the BBC Singers. The California-based musician regularly conducts BBC orchestras, and in 2017 called on both the BBC … » Read

Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony has its share of brutal dissonance—no question about that—yet some critics called it, according to the composer, an homage to the major third, a sonority as unlike dissonance as one … » Read

Producer Tom Kirdahy has announced that Stephen Sondheim’s final musical will make it to the stage this fall. Here We Are is the new title for the show formerly known as Square One , a work inspired by a pair of surrealist movies by … » Read

Pentatone has announced an ongoing recording project with American conductor Karina Canellakis. The Dutch boutique label has launched what it describes as a long-term, multi-album partnership with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra … » Read