Trinity Church Wall Street has announced a 2023-2024 season of music with a focus on hot-button issues of social, political, and environmental importance. Among the highlights will be world premieres of works by Benedict Sheehan, Luna Pearl … » Read

Park Avenue Armory has announced the 10th anniversary season of its prestigious Recital Series with programs from soprano Julia Bullock, award-winning ensemble Sandbox Percussion, and mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsay. Ticket prices for these intimate … » Read

The standoff between management and musicians at the Philadelphia Orchestra has entered a new phase after players voted Saturday night to authorize strike action. That doesn’t mean industrial action is inevitable, but it does empower Local … » Read

An analysis of gender parity and programming in Australian opera companies across 16 years from 2005 to 2020 makes for uncomfortable reading. As reported in The Conversation , researchers from University of Melbourne, RMIT University, and Edith … » Read

Beth Morrison Projects has announced its 18th season, and it’s a doozy. For its latest offering, the New York-based producing company is taking its trademark cutting-edge opera and music-theatre to the wider U.S. and overseas in a notable … » Read

Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and other record labels have sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records. The labels' lawsuit filed in a … » Read

Last week, the Shanghai Grand Theater announced a timely return to presenting international events in 2023-24. The coming season marks the performing arts center’s 25 th anniversary, with 58 different productions and a total of 480 … » Read

On Aug. 18 the San Francisco International Piano Festival launches a two-week series of solo recitals at a variety of venues in the area. Pianist Jeffrey LaDeur conceived the idea of a festival in 2017. “It seemed strange to me that there … » Read

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is undeniably one of the most fashionable maestros on the international stage. So, his attire at an open rehearsal by The Philadelphia Orchestra at Saratoga Springs, NY, on Aug 12 caught everyone’s … » Read

The financial realities of post-pandemic life have caught up with Opera Philadelphia. Straitened circumstances are necessitating a 20 percent budget cut, from $13.3mn to $11mn (from a high of $18mn in 2018); the elimination of six staff … » Read