Visa problems, apparently combined with rehearsal schedule conflicts, will keep Myung-Whun Chung from guest conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra’s subscription concerts on April 25-27. In a bit of luxury subbing, Music Director Yannick … » Read

Ellen Reid has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera p r i s m , premiered by the Los Angeles Opera in its "Off Grand" series last year and revisted in New York at the Prototype Festival last January. In his review , Clive Paget … » Read

Yo-Yo Ma brought his touring Bach Project to Laredo, TX, on Saturday, performing on the US-Mexico border to make the point that music can “reconnect us to our common humanity” and that it was important to "build bridges, not walls." A … » Read

Francesco Milioto is to be artistic advisor of Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera Company, marking General Director Maggie Oplinger’s first major hire since assuming the job in March . Oplinger, who succeeded William Florescu, is a former … » Read

Luciano Pavarotti undoubtedly will reach an even wider public than he did during his lifetime with the release of director Ron Howard’s film Pavarotti . Promising to explore “The Voice…The Man…The Legend,” the … » Read

Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov, under house arrest largely for his outspoken views since August 2017, was unexpectedly released on April 8. The Moscow City Court’s ruling freed Serebrennikov and two of his … » Read

Conductor Gerard Schwarz has been named distinguished professor of music, conducting, and orchestral studies at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. Schwarz, New York based, is conductor laureate of the Seattle Symphony, emeritus … » Read

The hue and cry in response to  Constantine Orbelian’s firing as director of Armenia’s national opera theater--a.k.a. the Alexander Spendiarian National Opera and Ballet Theater—appears to have subsided, momentarily. … » Read

Larry Hancock, Opera San José’s general director since 2014, has announced his intention to retire at the end of the 2019-20 season. Since 1984, when the company’s founder Irene Dalis made him her first hire, Hancock has filled … » Read

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — A violinist for a Texas symphony has suffered an apparent heart attack during a weekend performance and died despite the efforts of doctors in the audience who rushed to help him. Sixty-year-old Yu Zhao Gu was … » Read