The Paris Opera has launched Paris Opera Play (POP), its new streaming service available in international markets. The site offers live performances; exclusive documentaries, artist biographies, and masterclasses; and a catalogue of nearly 80 … » Read

On Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located above the Arctic Circle, plans are underway to create the Global Music Vault (GMV). Deep within the same mountain that houses the Global Seed Vault (also known as the Dooms Day Vault), capsules of … » Read

The 2023-24 season at London’s Wigmore Hall will include over 500 concerts, which, the Hall claims, is the largest program of classical music in the U.K, performed by some 2,600 artists. On the schedule are 28 world and U.K. premieres. … » Read

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s fourth season at the helm of the San Francisco Symphony will feature four world premieres, two one-act operas, a staging of Ravel’s Mother Goose ballet, four weeks of concerts led by Music Director Laureate Michael … » Read

PITTSBURGH (AP)—Scattered in crates, dirty and difficult to read, the gospel music of Charles Henry Pace sat packed away, unorganized — and unrealized — for more than 20 years. Frances Pace Barnes, the pioneering composer and … » Read

Earlier this month, news went out that Apple Music Classical, the long-awaited successor to Primephonic as a streaming music app dedicated to classical music—and equipped with search capabilities far better suited to classical than those of … » Read

Chalk up a win for those pushing back against the BBC’s full-on assault on classical music in the U.K. After intense pressure from musicians, the public, members of Parliament, and a petition signed by 140,000 people, the broadcaster has … » Read

Germany can rightfully claim the title of  “Opera Capitol of the World.” Its more than 80 permanent opera houses offer about 9,000 performances each year, a number five times greater than in all of North America. It is little … » Read

Enthusiastic fund-raising campaigns and changes in top management have done little to save the demise of the Philly Pops, which has “postponed” another set of concerts, scheduled for this weekend. The group announced it would cease … » Read

Approaching the anniversary of Beethoven’s death, on March 27, 1827, a group of international researchers published a study in  Current Biology last week, that, based on hair samples said to be the composer’s, debunks a number of … » Read