The Santa Fe Opera announced its 2020 season today, live-streaming its press conference on Facebook. General Director Robert K. Meya led the proceedings, with Board President Susan G. Marineau on hand, as well as Dramaturg Cori Ellison , and … » Read

MILAN—On Monday, Luca Formenton, head of Italian publisher Saggiatore, stood before a packed conference room to announce the formation of a new orchestra, LaFil. It can hardly be a coincidence that Daniele Gatti, with ample free time on his … » Read

The Lucerne Festival, est. 1938, is making some key changes. As of 2020 it will abolish the offshoots of its annual six-week-long summer festival: the Easter Festival (the last one ran April 6-14) and the Piano Festival (scheduled for November … » Read

Steinway & Sons has unveiled the Lang Lang Black Diamond (LLBD) grand piano, said to be “designed” by its namesake, and sure to be a best seller in his native country, which already accounts for one quarter of Steinway’s … » Read

The increased competition to capture their audiences’ attention has led performing arts organizations to embrace a number of innovative strategies. The Utah Opera is hoping that enlisting a coterie of social media influencers would pique … » Read

As if to complement the Dallas Opera’s annual Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors, the Dallas Symphony has announced the schedule for its inaugural Women in Classical Music Symposium, scheduled for November 6-9, 2019 and … » Read

By 2025 as many as one million people in the U.K. may suffer from dementia. While there is no cure for the condition, evidence suggests that music may reduce symptoms such as depression and agitation. A study by Sebastian Crutch, a … » Read

Since the end of the Cultural Revolution over 40 years ago, interest in western classical music has been booming in China. At least 40 million children reportedly now play the piano, producing an expanding market for recorded music as well as … » Read

As the Sun Symphony Orchestra (SSO) prepares to launch its second season, Olivier Ochanine recently sat down with the Vi?t Nam News for an interview. The ensemble’s upbeat music director characterized the SSO’s first year as a … » Read

During the first quarter of 2019, Spotify passed the threshold of 100 million paying subscribers, an increase of 32 percent above the streaming service’s performance a year earlier. Although revenues for the first three months of the year … » Read