The Ojai Festival’s 75 th anniversary season, June 9-12, is the perfect antidote to Beethoven-250 burnout. The mostly outdoor festival is always a contemporary music-lover’s paradise, but this year’s model is particularly … » Read

During the 2022-2023 season,  the New York Philharmonic and the Interlochen Center for the Arts are planning to forge a collaboration that will represent, in the words of Interlochen President Trey Devey, “a formative experience that … » Read

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra launches its 78 th season in the fall of 2022 with a new music director at the helm. Nathalie Stutzmann, principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra , becomes the fifth music director and the first woman … » Read

A video of a small fire at David Geffen Hall has been posted on Twitter, amid local reports of "at least 50 firefighters" arriving on the scene in response to a call around 1 a.m. on March 23. Asked for a comment, Lincoln Center responded: "The … » Read

Joe Moran, a professor of English and cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University, loved to sing, and for most of his adult life did so only for his own pleasure. But three years ago, he joined a sea-shanty choir and discovered … » Read

Describing next season in the “reimagined” David Geffen Hall as a new beginning, New York Philharmonic President and itinerate concert-hall builder/resurrector Deborah Borda took the stage in the Kaplan Penthouse last night to … » Read

From 1941 to 1944, more than 142,000 Jews passed through Terezín, a Nazi concentration camp located in a remote Bohemian fortress town en route to Auschwitz. Unlike their ultimate destination, Terezín was not a death camp: It served … » Read

The Odessa Opera and Ballet, the Ukraine’s oldest opera house, has become a center of resistance for this Black Sea port’s efforts to fend off Russian invaders. Built in 1887, it finds itself reprising its role of 80 years ago, when … » Read

The Lyric Opera of Chicago has appointed Matthew Ozawa to the newly created position of chief artistic administration officer. He starts April 12. No stranger to the company, Ozawa has previously served as interim head of Lyric Unlimited, the … » Read

It’s a veritable building boom in the performing arts: Last week, Lincoln Center announced the near completion of the remade David Geffen Hall; yesterday the St. Louis Symphony unveiled the expansion and upgrading of Powell Hall ; and now, … » Read