The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season, which opens September 23 with Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded , continues emphasizing contemporary operas, this time all tried and tweaked elsewhere before coming to the Met stage. That includes the … » Read

One of the many appeals of Bradley Cooper’s Oscar-nominated film Maestro is the authenticity of its musical performances, most especially the recreation of the London Symphony Orchestra’s 1973 performance of Mahler’s … » Read

The 2024-25 season of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO), the ensemble’s 145 th and Stéphane Denève’s sixth as music director, kicks off on Sept. 19 with the traditional free concert on Art Hill in Forest Park. Over … » Read

For the fourth consecutive time, the Detroit Symphony and its musicians have reached a new contract in advance of the current agreement’s expiration next September. In a press release, the orchestra’s President and CEO Erik … » Read

The orchestra of ENO has voted to stop all strike action planned for the middle of February after management agreed to revise its plans to dismiss all the musicians before rehiring them as part-time employees for six months of the year. Going … » Read

The BBC has announced that the BBC Singers will live on with ongoing financial support for staff from the BBC and educational support (as yet undefined) from the VOCES8 Foundation . The London-based group is both a performing entity and a … » Read

San Francisco Ballet has received $60 million from an anonymous donor, the largest gift in its 91-year history and perhaps the single largest to any U.S. ballet company. The gift exceeds SF Ballet’s annual, $55 million budget and is a clear … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Gushing after the New York Philharmonic performed Leonard Bernstein’s music, Bradley Cooper talked about creating the film Maestro  in hopes of drawing more attention to the composer and conductor. “Many … » Read

On Feb. 12, 1924, New York’s Aeolian Hall, on West 43 rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, hosted the Paul Whiteman Band performing an “Experiment in Modern Music.” The concert drew the city’s musical glitterati: … » Read

Musicians intent on receiving all the royalty payments they’re due often face obstacles when trying to determine exactly how much they are owed. Streaming companies, notorious for their meager payouts to all but a few stars, have made the … » Read