This year’s annual meeting of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra was cause for celebration, as the ensemble announced that the conclusion of its 2021/22 season brought with it the elimination of an accumulated deficit that had bedeviled the TSO … » Read

Apple is said to be nearing the release of Apple Music Classical, its standalone music streaming app promised for a 2022 introduction. In August 2021 the tech giant bought the classical music service Primephonic, at the time promising, … » Read

With support from the Ford Foundation, the Denyce Graves Foundation has launched “Shared Voices,” a partnership designed to offer opportunities for young singers from diverse backgrounds. In describing the initiative, the … » Read

The newly formed  San Antonio Philharmonic has purchased the assets of the defunct San Antonio Symphony with unspecified financial resources made available by David Wood and Colette Holt, and by the American Federation of Musicians Local 23. … » Read

Gustav Mahler’s autograph score of his Symphony No. 2, Resurrection , now belongs to the Cleveland Orchestra, a gift from Herbert G. Kloiber, an Austrian media tycoon and orchestra trustee. “The manuscript,” exclaimed … » Read

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rossini’s Otello premiered in 1816, and the musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play was a hit for seven decades. Then Verdi’s version debuted in 1887 and was acclaimed as a pinnacle of the art … » Read

The first product of the Emerging Black Composers Project , the two-year-old commissioning project of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is set for its premiere on Sept. 29 with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover. Five year later she’s back in a role … » Read

Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra have inked a new four-year collective bargaining agreement that extends through August 31, 2026. The contract smooths the way for the transition from Osmo Vänskä to Danish conductor Thomas … » Read

As the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) launches its 143 rd season, Music Director Stéphane Denève welcomes four new full-time musicians to the ensemble. Joining as second bassoonist is Julia Paine . A graduate of the University … » Read