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

Breaking the Waves , composer Missy Mazzoli [pictured] and librettist Royce Vavrek’s adaptation of Lars von Trier’s eponymous 1996 film, is the feature attraction of the West Edge Opera’s 2019 summer season. “I’m … » Read

Bayside Performance Park, the San Diego Symphony’s proposed $45 million permanent venue for outdoor concerts in Embarcadero Marina Park, moved another step closer to reality on July 24, when the Port of San Diego commissioners unanimously … » Read

Leadership at the Curtis Institute of Music is scrambling to control the damage resulting from a July 25 newspaper report on a decades-old allegation of sexual abuse by a teacher of a student . Violinist Lara St. John said Jascha Brodsky, a … » Read

In an opinion piece, Carol Bogash, a onetime senior executive at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, excoriates the management and board for the BSO’s financial problems. Bogash, board chair of the Washington Conservatory of Music and a … » Read

Germany’s thriving cultural community is one of the richest and most diverse in Europe. But rumblings from the far-right political party Alternative for Germany [AfD] pose a growing threat to its health. Anti-immigration has been the … » Read

On Aug. 1, the Merola Opera Program will present it’s first-ever commission—the world premiere of If I Were You by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer. Nicole Paiement will conduct and Keturah Stickann direct a production … » Read