The appearance of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra this weekend in Carnegie Hall marks the anniversary of an initiative launched 30 years ago in Winston-Salem, N.C. Eager to raise the visibility of Black artists, Juilliard-trained pianist … » Read

The late Walter J. Wolnik was an Amherst, MA, resident who so enjoyed listening to classical music overnight that he bequeathed $3 million to New England Public Media, Classical NEPM. A native of Springfield, MA, Wolnik, who died in September … » Read

The sudden departure of Martyn Brabbins from English National Opera has drawn a sharp reaction from three of the U.K.’s most illustrious music directors. In an Oct. 17 letter in The Times , Sir Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal … » Read

A recent study of the 11 largest opera companies in the U.S. by two Australian researchers has confirmed what was already known anecdotally—women are grievously underrepresented in opera’s various creative roles. Unequal … » Read

The English National Opera (ENO) has suffered another blow. News in January that Arts Council England had backed off its November 2022 decision to zero out the company’s funding and an unexpected grant to underwrite planning for the … » Read

While several of the major symphony orchestras in the U.S. have recently negotiated new contracts— Boston , San Francisco , Cleveland , and Chicago —the Philadelphia Orchestra remains without a labor agreement since its previous … » Read

After nine years, the Maryland Lyric Opera is immediately ending operations. The group’s founder and artistic director Brad Clark, scion of billionaire construction mogul A. James Clark, made the announcement in an internal memo … » Read

The negative impact of Brexit on the music industry in the U.K. has been well-documented. Most recently an August report from the Independent Society of Musicians (ISM) found that 27.8 percent of musicians had not worked in Europe since Brexit; … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra has cancelled its tour to Israel, the first to that nation by an American orchestra since 2018, due to the war against Hamas. The tour was to include three performances, one each in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem, of … » Read

According to plan, Opera Philadelphia’s 2023 annual fall festival was more modest than in years’ past. The ten-day event featured three productions, mixing the traditional with the contemporary, as well as cabaret performances and … » Read