California’s three biggest orchestras--The Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony—have announced a new festival of music composed in the last five years that “resonates” with the history … » Read

The 47 th season of Spoleto Festival USA will run May 26-June 11 with more than100 events in venues throughout Charleston, SC. The second iteration under Mena Mark Hanna, CEO and general director, opens with a concert celebrating the late Geoff … » Read

Still currently in its centennial season, the San Francisco Opera has announced the launch of its second century as of September 2023, running through June of 2024 with a number of works new to the house, three of them co-productions. Those are … » Read

In March, noted British baritone Peter Brathwaite will present Insurrection: A Work in Progress— a new opera based on the music of his Barbadian ancestors -- in “semi-staged sharings” among school and community groups throughout … » Read

The annual report for the fiscal year 2022 brought good news for the Minnesota Orchestra. The ensemble’s first full season of post-pandemic performances produced an operating deficit of $656,000. This represented a marked improvement over … » Read

The U.K.’s leading opera companies—Glyndebourne, Royal Opera House, Opera North, English National Opera (ENO), English Touring Opera and Welsh National Opera—have issued an appeal to Arts Council England (ACE) for the … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera’s press department, which falls under the jurisdiction of Marketing and Communications, headed by Assistant General Manager Gillian Brierley, is looking rather different than it did before Dan Wakin arrived one year … » Read

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra (SDSO), with a core of nine professional musicians and an annual budget of $2.3 million, has received a contribution of $2 million from native son and billionaire Dean Buntrock, founder and longtime chief of … » Read

One of the pleasures flowing from the classical music world’s long overdue attention to Black artists is the frequent discovery of extraordinary individuals whose achievements have hitherto gone unrecognized. Mary Lucinda Cardwell Dawson, … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera will mark the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with a concert to remember victims of the war. This is the company's  second concert honoring Ukraine. Met music director Yannick … » Read