San Francisco Opera will receive $5 million a year from Jensen and Lori Huang, co-chairs of the company’s Monkey King Honorary Committee. The gift is helping to underwrite the recent premiere of composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry … » Read

It took Peter Wollny more than three decades to determine that two unsigned manuscripts he discovered at the Royal Library of Belgium while in graduate school at Harvard were the work of a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach. “This is a … » Read

The Met Opera stage had a few extra supernumeraries Friday night, as hecklers landed on stage during Act 1 of the updated, bus-and-truck Carmen   to protest the late right-wing billionaire David Koch, one of Lincoln Center’s biggest … » Read

Executive orders by Donald Trump restricting the use of federal grant money for projects that promote diversity, equity and inclusion have led several organizations to decline grants from their state arts councils. States arts council funds come … » Read

Welsh baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen won the first prize at the biennial Paris Opera Competition on Nov. 20 at Marigny Theatre. As a member of the International Opera Studio at Zürich Opera, Mann appears this year in Rigoletto , Un ballo in … » Read

For anyone whose favorite instrument is the cello, Davies Symphony Hall was the place to be on November 16. The occasion was the world premiere of Gaïa , Greek for Goddess of the Earth, a program of 16 short pieces for solo cello and … » Read

The preliminary results for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s (PSO) 2024–2025 fiscal year are full of good news. PSO President & CEO Melia Tourangeau and Board Chair Anthony Bucci reported a $34.6 million operating budget with a … » Read

The Stulberg International String Competition, coming up on its 50 th anniversary in May, has  appointed Garret Jones, director of administration for the Kalamazoo Symphony, to be its next executive director, with the mandate of expanding … » Read

At first glance the Galilee Chamber Orchestra seems an unlikely meeting of musical minds. Based in Nazareth, the ensemble includes 46 musicians drawn from students, faculty, and alumni at the Polyphony Conservatory as well as nearby … » Read

PARIS—Behold the tale of a journey thwarted. The chief draw to this new staging of La Damnation de Faust at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (TCE), Paris, was the prospect of hearing Benjamin Bernheim sing a title … » Read