Bas Sheve ( Bathsheba ), one of the few pre-Holocaust Yiddish operas performed in Europe, enjoyed an unprepossessing, low budget premiere in Warsaw in May of 1924. Its composer Henech Kon provided a piano accompaniment and also sang the bass … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera is dropping its vaccination requirement for audiences next season but still will mandate the wearing of masks. The decision announced Tuesday differentiates the Met from Broadway theaters, which l … » Read

Symphonic music in San Antonio seems to have at least nine lives. Just three months after the 83-year-old San Antonio Symphony (SAS) closed up shop , most of the ensemble’s former musicians are back as the San Antonio Philharmonic. The … » Read

Since 2014 Britain's Aurora Orchestra has built a reputation for its performances of entire symphonies from memory. In The Strad , principal double bass Benjamin Griffiths recalls the ensemble’s initial performance of Mozart’s … » Read

In a move that, on the surface, appears a win-win, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra (ISO) will collaborate with Illinois State University’s (ISU) Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts and School of Music by moving its performances on campus to … » Read

That Christian Fellowship church in McAllen, TX, that stole, then bowdlerized Hamilton to suit its own (anti-gay) “Christian” agendas, has finally apologized for neither seeking usage rights nor permission to change the lyrics in its … » Read

The 2½-year, $150 million  refurbishment of the Sydney Opera House has produced one of the best concert halls in the world. So says Simone Young,  chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Peter McCallum, the Sydney … » Read

Lincoln Center has announced its programming for the coming season and, as if to underline its executive layer’s distrust of the classical idiom, much less the canon, it will present a potpourri of the hippest trends in cross-genre, nod to … » Read

This fall Princeton University Concerts (PUC) will introduce “Healing with Music,” a three-concert series by musicians who will share their personal relationships to music during illness and other forms of personal upheaval. Clemency … » Read

Within the performing arts' efforts to reduce carbon emissions, Glyndebourne is the front-runner, having installed its own wind turbine in January 2012-- a controversial move at the time, inspiring many complaints about its ruining the … » Read