LONDON -- Founded in 2015 by double bass player Chi-chi Nwanoku, Chineke! Orchestra is Europe's first majority-Black and ethnically diverse orchestra and is part of the Chineke! Foundation, which supports, inspires, and encourages Black and … » Read

CHICAGO—Midway through the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s concert July 10 at the Ravinia Festival, the skies opened, thoroughly drenching the crowd on the lawn. Earlier in the week, a second or two after the final note of the Grant Park … » Read

AIX-EN-PROVENCE— Whether by accident or design, July at the Aix-en-Provence Festival is Australia Month. The ever-busy Antipodean Barrie Kosky opened the month with Verdi’s Falstaff and will soon follow that at the festival’s … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO--The audience at Davies Hall may have been masked, but its response to the San Francisco Symphony certainly wasn’t muffled. “Bravo!” someone cried out, to genial laughter, after the ensemble tuned up for the … » Read

LENOX, MA--Last weekend, the Boston Symphony Orchestra returned to its summer home at Tanglewood after an 18-month hiatus. The first, unofficial, opening night, on July 9, featured the Brooklyn-based Knights, with Artistic Director Eric Jacobsen … » Read

Desert In is certainly something different. Comprised of eight 15- to 20-minute episodes, it’s an operatic experiment for the screen born of the pandemic and created at a time when streamable content was all audiences could hope for. And … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — “Now I will conduct a short excerpt from Ravel’s Bolero , the Metropolitan Opera’s future music director announces proudly. It’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin, but he’s not the figure … » Read

AIX-EN-PROVENCE— The rebirth of France’s premier opera festival after a barren, Covid-blighted 2020 felt like a joyous act of defiance. Not only has Artistic Director Pierre Audi programmed a record number of operas (nine in all, if … » Read

LONDON—The Cinderella among Handel’s so-called “magic” operas, Amadigi –composed four years after Rinaldo and two full decades before his bewitching masterpiece Alcina— boasts music of the utmost enchantment. … » Read

On June 12 and 13, The Woodland’s Cemetery in Philadelphia provided the backdrop for performances of we got time , composer Matana Roberts' “experimental protest music” honoring Breonna Taylor. Each of the 24 members of the The … » Read