After 22 years, the Miami Lyric Opera is closing.  Although not so indicated on its website, South Florida Classical Review reports the news, quoting company founder/general and artistic director Raffaele Cardone as saying “The … » Read

Every few months someone in the classical music firmament is moved to express, often apologetically, their love for Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 2 nd Piano Concerto. The latest entrant, Ben Lawrence writing in The Telegraph , reports that for the … » Read

The St. Thomas Choir School, the 105-year-old residential school for boys between the ages of 8 and 14 drawn from across the nation, is in danger of closing within the next 15 months unless its financial underpinnings can be strengthened. Based … » Read

A second opera company in the U.K. is facing the prospect of seeing its orchestra members going part-time due to budget cuts. Like the orchestra musicians of English National Opera, who were recently forced to swallow a contract providing only … » Read

After more than 65 years, the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) has opened its first permanent home—the BYSO Youth Center for Music, strategically located directly across the street from Symphony Hall. Since it was founded in 1958, … » Read

“We’d all better buckle up,” warns Joshua Kosman as he contemplates the future for the San Francisco Symphony. The “conscious uncoupling” of the SFS and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen portends nothing positive, … » Read

In announcing its coming season of 550 concerts including 30 world and U.K. premieres—reportedly the country’s largest classical music program—the Wigmore Hall and its very savvy Artistic and Executive Director John Gilhooly … » Read

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s decision to join the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) in 2018 was a major coup. At the time of his appointment, he spoke glowingly about the new partnership: "My ideas about an orchestra as an institution," he told the New … » Read

What’s an Oscar worth? Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers, co-directors of The Last Repair Shop , which won this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film, hope that the answer might be as much as $15 million. That’s the … » Read

Arts organizations across Oregon, still staggering from the effects of the pandemic, are to receive a $52 million cash infusion over the next three years. The money includes $11.8 million from the state’s legislature and $20 million each … » Read