Orchestras around the world have embraced the popularity of live-with-film concerts. They are reliable revenue generators, typically selling-out, and are proving to be vehicles with which to introduce new, younger audiences to orchestra … » Read

While ecstatic at the prospect of a full-fledged return to live performances, The Washington Post’s music critic Michael Andor Brodeur laments the slow but seemingly steady demise of the printed program. Whereas “happy ushers” … » Read

The Mostly Mozart Festival, a summertime staple of Lincoln Center for over 50 years, is all but dead, argues Zachary Woolfe in The New York Times . “Instead,” he contends, “classical music, even in its ever-struggling nonprofit … » Read

The Rise Diversity Project aims to remedy one of the biggest shortcomings in the pool of classically trained American musicians—the relative absence of individuals from Black, Latinx, and Asian communities. Conceived and organized by … » Read

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v Wade will lend the San Francisco Opera’s June 2023 presentation of R. Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten ( The Woman Without a Shadow ) an unwelcome immediacy. At the … » Read

The Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra (MNPO), a newly created national orchestra in South Africa, is scheduled to give its debut performance in late July amid criticism that it costs too much and is unnecessary. The MNPO is the brainchild of … » Read

After two years of online music in deference to the pandemic, the 60-year-old Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music is returning to live performance, July 24-August 7, with a season of orchestral music touching on social, political, and … » Read

Let the Music Move—A New Deal for Touring , a report published on July 18 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Music (APPG), offers a series of recommendations to address the "mountain of red tape and extra costs that musicians and crew … » Read

The Gogol Center, the daring and often controversial theater revivified by the film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov, is no more. On June 29, the Moscow Department of Culture announced that the contracts for artistic director and … » Read

The Met Opera may not be offering its free streams anymore, but for those willing to contend with the elements, it will screen free HD encore performances August 27-September 5 in Lincoln Center Plaza. First up, though, on August 26,is Steven … » Read