In a dispute of operatic proportions, the production team of Bizet’s Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera ordered their names stripped from programs over a restaging decision, and the company intends to bring back sets of a retired 2009 … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—In a well-designed recital that moved from Francis Poulenc settings of Federico Garcia Lorca’s knife-edged poetry and the death-haunted meditations of Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe to a sampler of songs of … » Read

The victory of Lim Hyun-jae at the 2026 Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition on Sunday, January 18 in Boca Raton, FL, represented more than a musical triumph. For the 28-year-old instrumentalist, it represented a pinnacle in her … » Read

Entering its 50 th -anniversary season, the Piedmont Opera has appointed Joseph Mechavich as general director, a post he has held at the Winston-Salem, NC, company on an interim basis for the past year. He succeeds James Allbritten, who resigned … » Read

British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason recently reported that the finger injury on his left hand has not healed sufficiently for him to get back to playing publicly until at least mid-March. An unspecified injury in November initially forced him to … » Read

Vocal Arts DC has joined the crowd. In this, its 35 th anniversary season, the esteemed presenter has been forced to cancel all remaining performances at the Kennedy Center for lack of ticket sales and donations, along with refund requests.  … » Read

The $200 million deal the Met Opera made with Saudi Arabia last fall, for a three-week residency at the new Royal Diriyah Opera House, is apparently looking a little shaky. As a result, the Met has announced significant cuts, including laying off … » Read

The four-performance run of What to Wear, the music-theater piece defying conventional expectations of narrative clarity, was sold out. On viewing its New York premiere, by the PROTOTYPE Festival January 15 at BAM’s Harvey Theater, its … » Read

The Music Collection at the Library of Congress (LOC), one of the nation’s treasures, made a number of significant additions to its collections in 2025, building on existing strengths in composers, manuscripts, and instruments while also … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra’s sophisticated and rigorous performances have given it a reputation as one of America’s finest orchestras. Why it is so good became evident over a three-day period in the eyes of a New York Times critic … » Read