The Metropolitan Opera and James Levine have settled their assorted claims and counter claims against one another. Neither side will comment on the terms or on whether any money changed hands. The news emerged Tuesday. "The legal dispute with … » Read

VENTSPILS, Latvia—A German-born innovator has crafted what is believed to be the world's largest grand piano. It is without question one of a kind: attached high on the wall of a concert hall in Latvia, the steel-framed vertical grand piano … » Read

The Orlando Ballet has issued a list of grievances against the leadership at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, collaborating with the Center’s other two resident groups, the opera and the orchestra, to put together what is … » Read

Renée Fleming is spreading her wings, adding to her current CV a relaunched opera program at the Aspen Music Festival and School with conductor Patrick Summers, starting in summer 2020. Those interested in applying had best get their ducks … » Read

The links between cultural participation and mental well-being are at the root of several therapeutic projects underway in Europe. In Denmark, one of the most ambitious is a pilot program—Kulturvitaminer (culture vitamins)—that works … » Read

The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, popular with U.S. audiences, has been forced to cancel its Stateside tours because of new, even more restrictive hurdles the U.S. has imposed in obtaining a visa. In what very well may be a violation of … » Read

Opera composers are forever on the lookout for good source material. In past centuries mythology, popular novels and stage works, and tales of historical romance provided the grist for everyone from Gluck to Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini. … » Read

Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts finds itself in the eye of a hurricane of bad news. On July 29, Kenneth Robinson, the head of the Dr. Phillips Charities, for whom the complex is named, resigned from the center’s … » Read

While travelers on the Baltimore Metro have been reluctant to play a piano recently installed for the public’s use in the Charles Center station, musicians from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) are showing no such reluctance. Locked … » Read

Much in the same way the announcement of a show closing is a surefire way to prompt a last-minute surge in ticket sales, the National Philharmonic has been saved from the shutdown it announced two weeks ago by a last-minute surge in donations. … » Read