The 2026-27 season at the Metropolitan Opera boasts 17 productions, one of them a world premiere, four of them new to the house, and the rest revivals. Before the pandemic, the company offered about 25 productions per season. In fact 2026-27 has … » Read

The Carmel Bach Festival (CBF) has unveiled its 89th summer season, running July 11-25 in a number of venues in and around Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA. “Our theme, the nature of sound, invites us to listen more deeply,” said CBF Artistic … » Read

Barry Mitchell, a 1982 graduate from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Cincinnati (UC), has gifted $3 million to the UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) to endow a faculty chair and scholarships. … » Read

The drip, drip, drip of bad news emanating from the San Antonio Philharmonic became a flood on Feb. 16 when an email to the musicians from CEO Roberto Treviño announced, “As part of the broader reconfiguration of our season, we will … » Read

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) 2026/27 season marks its 147 th and Stéphane Denève’s ninth as music director. This will be the orchestra’s second year in the renovated Powell Hall at the new Jack C. Taylor Music … » Read

Civic leaders joined Atlanta Opera General Artistic Director Tomer Zvulun and others yesterday for the official groundbreaking of the Molly Blank Center for Opera and the Arts, the company’s planned facility for rehearsal, education, … » Read

Classical music’s powers to impact and change our lives, to connect and create empathy, are widely acknowledged, even as the art form remains generally underfunded and ignored as an educational necessity. It is little wonder then, writes … » Read

Given the myriad high-tech possibilities that could be exploited in an interpretation of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf , writes Peter Dobrin in The Philadelphia Inquirer , The Philadelphia Orchestra “is smart enough to let the piece … » Read

The destruction of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center of the Performing Arts, soon to be literal, under the DT regime is reflected in its near-empty houses, fleeing resident companies (the Washington National Opera the most visible), in-protest … » Read

A Feb. 10 email from Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell warned staff to expect cuts and the reality of “skeletal teams” once renovation of the building begins in July. “Departments will obviously function on a much smaller … » Read