The Chicago Opera Theater flexes its muscle next season as Chicago’s distinctively “other” opera company. Showing creative chic, it has come up with a concert version of Carmen starring Jamie Barton in the title role and … » Read

LOS ANGELES – So there will be music in Walt Disney Concert Hall this fall and winter after all, for the Los Angeles Philharmonic revealed plans for its 2021-2022 season on Tuesday. The announcement came about four months later than … » Read

On June 11 the Copyright Royalty Board took an overdue step toward promoting a healthier music industry, increasing the royalty payments for digital performances of sound recordings over the Internet by webcasters like Pandora and SiriusXM. The … » Read

We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is … » Read

On June 15 a fire destroyed Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, one of the nation’s leading builders of the instruments for churches, schools, and concert halls around the world. Located in Lake City, 70 miles northwest of Des Moines, the company … » Read

The Kimmel Center and The Philadelphia Orchestra are combining forces to create a new parent company, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center, Inc., with the orchestra’s President and CEO Matías Tarnopolsky as overseer. The new … » Read

For  New Works, Bold Voices Lab , one of four principal offerings of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’s Covid-tailored outdoor season, the company commissioned an evening of three premieres (seen on June 12), each lasting less than 30 … » Read

Concerts in the first seven weeks of the Boston Symphony’s 2021-22 season, announced today, will have no intermissions, a (hopefully) last remnant of Covid-19 precautions, along with touchless ticketing and an updated ventilation system in … » Read

As if to reassure us that it will, indeed, offer a full 2021-22 season, and that Riccardo Muti is still, indeed, its music director, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has announced the first few programs of its next season, packaging it as a … » Read

The Springfield Symphony Orchestra (SSO), Massachusetts’ largest such ensemble outside of Boston, is in the midst of labor negotiations that will likely make or break the upcoming season. The musicians’ contract expired in August of … » Read