The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025/26 season, the company’s 71 st and  John Mangum’s first as general director, president ,& CEO, includes two world premieres, two Lyric premieres, and three new-to-Chicago productions. … » Read

What’s this? No Mahler? No Brahms? The New York Philharmonic announced its 2025-26 season today, with Music Director Designate Gustavo Dudamel and CEO Matías Tarnopolsky setting the stage for what appears to be the orchestra’s … » Read

A law suit filed in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island on March 6 led the National Endowment for the Arts to agree that, for the moment, grant applicants need not attest that they will not “promote gender ideology” when applying … » Read

The Cincinnati Opera and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) reached a three-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA), ratified on March 3 by the union’s board of governors. The contract, retroactive to January 1, 2025, extends … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced its 2025-26 season, Gustavo Dudamel’s 17 th and last as music and artistic director. The menu includes 25 commissioned works, including 20 world premieres and three U.S. premieres. Following the … » Read

The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) have “paused” the five-year-old Emerging Black Composers Project (EBCP) in response to a memo from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of … » Read

The upcoming season for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) combines its traditional quality programming with a new partnership with the Colburn School. Since it was founded in 1968, LACO has performed in several different venues, including … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—The megahit Broadway musical Hamilton is pulling out of plans to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., next year, citing Trump’s shakeup of the art institution’s … » Read

The 2025-26 Chicago Symphony Orchestra season has its immediate past and future music directors, Riccardo Muti and Klaus Mäkelä, leading four programs each in Chicago, with the former also touring seven U.S. cities with the band and the … » Read

The Aizuri Quartet—violinists Miho Saegusa and Emma Frucht, violist Brian Hong, and cellist Caleb van der Swaagh—has announced it will disband at the end of April after 13 years together. Its final recital, scheduled for April 25, … » Read