When Boston Lyric Opera’s (BLO) new Opera and Community Studios (OCS) facility in the city’s Fort Point neighborhood opens, visitors can be forgiven if they are confused by the sign above the door reading … » Read

“Due to irreconcilable differences of opinion and disagreements, the Salzburg Festival and Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser are parting ways effective immediately,” the festival has announced. “This is the result of a … » Read

With the end of the 2025-26 season just around the corner, today’s news seems sudden: Carter Brey, the New York Philharmonic’s longtime and highly estimable principal cello, is to retire at season’s end. His final performance as … » Read

For fans of 20 th - and 21 st -century music, this year’s Ojai Music Festival is irresistible. Put together by Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen with festival Artistic and Executive Ara Guzelimian, the 80 th iteration of this historic … » Read

Update, March 30: New Boston Globe interview with Chad Smith  responds to musicians' public statement. The displeasure surrounding the announcement that the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) will not renew Andris Nelsons’s contract as … » Read

Three new releases highlight the diversity of orchestral and chamber music coming out of the U.S. right now. First up, Sarah Kirkland Snider ’s Forward Into Light , a distinctive and immersive album by one of America’s most individual … » Read

Travelers passing through the Pittsburgh International Airport between now and April 30 can see life-size holograms of members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performing. Created by Joe Zeff Design, timed to coincide with the influx of … » Read

The San Antonio Philharmonic—which cancelled all remaining concerts last month and whose future viability, given its past, is questionable—is seeking more than $1 million in damages from the San Antonio Scottish Rite Library and … » Read

CHICAGO— Hello, Dolly was right: Sometimes, it only takes a moment. Director Matthew Ozawa’s widely traveled production of Madama Butterfly is far from perfect in its arrival at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where Ozawa is the chief … » Read

In a sign of its ongoing struggles, the English National Opera has appointed yet another interim CEO, the third attempt to secure administrative leadership in as many years. He is Paul Reeve, MBE, arriving in April to succeed J enny Mollica, in … » Read