SANTA CRUZ, Ca—It took a while for the ever-adventurous Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music to get back in its old groove, what with the 2020 and 2021 seasons relegated to online and the 2022 comeback partially disrupted by an outbreak … » Read

A performance of Silent Night , composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2011 opera, might at first seem out of place on a hot August night at Wolf Trap. “[But,]” argues Michael Andor Brodeur in … » Read

The recent news that John Eliot Gardiner would not be returning to the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra (MCO) after almost a year’s absence following his physical assault on a chorister last August would seem to have settled the matter. But … » Read

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) has cancelled a performance of works by Mozart and Brahms by the Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham [pictured], scheduled for Aug. 15, due to “a series of introductory remarks” he made at … » Read

SANTA FE, NM— “Love is terrifying,” observes the protagonist of The Righteous , the affecting new work by Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith at Santa Fe Opera . A preacher elected to be governor during the 1980s, he’s … » Read

The Colburn School has received a $16.6 million gift from the Chicago-based Negaunee Foundation to endow in perpetuity the Conservatory of Music’s Negaunee Conducting Program, led by composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. The program was … » Read

The Glimmerglass Festival’s 50 th -anniversary season, scheduled to run from July 11 through August 17, 2025, will offer a world premiere, two house premieres, and a revival of Francesca Zambello’s production of Odyssey , the … » Read

On Aug. 11, nearly two years after he withdrew from conducting, Daniel Barenboim made a return to the podium at the Proms. “It was the concert many suspected we would never hear,” writes Martin Kettle in The Guardian . He was … » Read

Elizabeth S. Condic, chief financial officer of the Houston Symphony, will move into the post of interim executive director and CEO of the orchestra as of October, as John Mangum makes his exit to become general director, president, and CEO of … » Read

The Russian invasion of Ukraine left Russian artists like Netrebko and Gergiev shunned in many of the world’s concert halls for their refusal to condemn Putin’s aggression; many more either left Russia or were intimidated by threats … » Read