Since 1959 the Medical Arts Symphony of Kansas City community orchestra has provided amateur musicians working in the health care professions with performance opportunities that offer essential relief from a stressful work environment. For Liam … » Read

Zarqa Al Yamama , the first grand opera produced in Saudi Arabia, recently premiered in Riyadh. With music by Australian composer Lee Bradshaw and an Arabic libretto by Saudi poet Saleh Zamanan, the opera tells the story of a blue-eyed tribal … » Read

The 2023-24 season is the swansong for the St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ), the group announced yesterday. The decision comes after a one-year hiatus following the death of founding violinist Geoff Nuttall . The quartet’s three remaining … » Read

Misogyny in Music , a report prepared by the British Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee, appears to have fallen on deaf ears. The government has rejected the report’s recommendations, despite an acknowledgement that it is … » Read

The upcoming summer’s BBC Proms, the ninth and last season under the direction of David Pickard , features the usual array of classical music luminaries, the continued commitment to programming female conductors (10), some important … » Read

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and its Music Director Manfred Honeck will travel to Europe for two weeks, August 22 through September 7, with stops in nine cities including Salzburg, where it will be the sole American orchestra on the … » Read

The Richmond Symphony Orchestra (RSO) has named Hae Lee as its new associate conductor and Youth Orchestra (RSYO) conductor, effective in July 2024. In the former role, the 32-year-old Korean maestro succeeds Chia-Hsuan Lin, who after seven years … » Read

The Curtis Institute of Music will broaden its conducting program to include both operatic and orchestral conducting. Yannick Nézet-Séguin— at the artistic helms of The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, and … » Read

Romeo Castellucci dropped out of his production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Belgium’s La Monnaie theater halfway through because of what the company said Saturday was a lack of money and time. The four-part Der Ring des Nibelungen (The … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—The children crumple and fall to the stage, victims of King Herod’s assassins. Then the Virgin Mary, in a voice brimming with anguish and outrage, memorializes the student protesters who were massacred by Mexican armed … » Read