After several months that included at times fractious negotiations, dueling press releases, and a week-long strike at the beginning of February, faculty at Manhattan School of Music's Precollege Division have secured a new contract with the … » Read

Dresden’s Saxon State Opera’s 2025-26 season boasts some 292 opera and ballet performances, with eight new stagings in the former category. Opening the season next October in his first performance as principal conductor of the … » Read

The San Francisco Symphony’s 2025-26 season features 26 weeks of music with 23 different conductors. Notably absent, from even one program, is the current music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, who opted not to renew his contract after five … » Read

The Glenn Gould Prize, bestowed biennially by the Foundation of the same name, has been awarded to singer/songwriter/philanthropist/activist Elton John, of a different musical bent than the prize’s namesake, but no less accomplished and via … » Read

Monica Meyer Beale, recent VP of advancement for the Milwaukee Symphony, is to join the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) as senior VP and chief development officer next month. She succeeds Mary Anne Talotta, who left in the fall for a similar … » Read

Opera is an endangered art form. Increasingly expensive to mount and facing dwindling audiences, it struggles to gain traction with patrons new to or unfamiliar with the genre, who can fine storylines and stereotypes offensive. No single work … » Read

The opening of the Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Center in Toronto, a joint initiative by Tapestry Opera, Nightwood Theater, and St. Clare’s Housing, is intended to offset the challenges the city’s rising living costs and … » Read

Nonesuch Records has championed Steve Reich for four decades with a slew of first recordings, many of them definitive. They form the bedrock of a 27-disc set of Reich’s “Collected Works,” released this month. A handful of … » Read

In a rare sign of stability in the recent life of the Kennedy Center, Gianandrea Noseda has extended his contract as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra through its centennial season, in 2031. He will have been at the … » Read

Until recently, the only on-campus performance venue available to music students at UC-Berkeley was the 678-seat Hertz Theater, a space that too often left student performers feeling overwhelmed by a largely empty concert hall. “I remember … » Read