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

Symphony, a new on-demand platform for streaming classical music, launches on Sept. 24 with the season opening of the Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam. The live concert, the first in a series dubbed "Symphony Night Live," will include … » Read

To honor the wife of the great, late bass-baritone, the George London Foundation for Singers has added her name to become the George and Nora London Foundation. Established by the singer in 1971, the organization has since given more than 300 … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway’s longest-running show, is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York. The musical — a fixture … » Read

Opera-goers have Renée Fleming to thank for what is sure to be one of the season’s “must-see” productions—the Metropolitan Opera’s staging of The Hours . Adapted by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Greg … » Read

The University of Pennsylvania has announced plans to build a new theater, to be named for its primary donor, Stuart Weitzman, that will be connected to the south side of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The Center, recently … » Read

The Kennedy Center is celebrating its 50 th anniversary (plus one pandemic year) with a new production of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass , which inaugurated the Center for the Performing Arts in September of 1971. Bernstein’s work, … » Read

The death of Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8 prompted the BBC to cancel the Last Night of the Proms on Sept. 10 as well as the penultimate concert scheduled for the previous evening by the Philadelphia Orchestra. The monarch, a Patron of the Royal … » Read

A centennial is a time to reflect on past accomplishments, and the San Francisco Opera (SFO)  at one hundred has much to celebrate. But such moments also invite a look to the future to identify new challenges and opportunities that will … » Read

The unlikely convergence of three of America’s premier symphony orchestras for successive performances in early September at the Dresden Music Festival’s Kulturpalast offered a critic for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette an opportunity to … » Read