After months of stalled negotiations, capping years of the same and financial struggle, the San Antonio Symphony board has started proceedings for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Memo from the board: “With deep regret, the Board of Directors of the … » Read

On May 10, the members of the DaPonte String Quartet received a terse letter from the recently hired executive director notifying them that “your position as a salaried musician will be eliminated as of May 10, 2022.” Cellist Myles … » Read

Each season the more than 80 permanent opera houses in Germany produce between seven and eight thousand performances, which is about one third of the world’s total. Italy, by contrast, presents fewer than two thousand. Such abundance is … » Read

The growing enthusiasm for new operas too often collides with what the San Francisco Chronicle’ s Joshua Kosman has identified as the “second production” problem. As he explains it, the introduction of a new work, often amid … » Read

The 1714 “da Vinci, ex-Seidel” Strad, anticipated to fetch  “up to $20 million” at auction by Tarisio, finally sold last week for 12.29 million euros, about $15.34 million, the second highest amount ever fetched for a … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera sold 61 percent of available tickets this season after returning from a 1½ year absence, managing 196 staged performances without a cancellation. Sales were down from 75 percent in last … » Read

Beginning in October 2022 and extending through June 2023, the Washington Performing Arts next season will explore the theme of The World in Our City . With more than 150 embassies and diplomatic representatives in the city, noted President & … » Read

Barring a last-minute resolution, this weeks rounds of the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which are performed with the Fort Worth Symphony, will not be broadcast on Dallas’s classical radio station, WRR-FM. The local … » Read

Musicians of the New York Philharmonic have been made whole again, following understandable reductions to their salaries during the pandemic's 18 months of concert cancellations. Base pay will return to $2,952 per week, as it was in the 2019-2020 … » Read

As an exhausting season came to an end on June 10, the Metropolitan Opera could claim a very rare measure of success—not a single one of its nearly 200 performances was cancelled amid the ongoing turmoil resulting from the coronavirus … » Read