The San Francisco Opera’s 2024-25 season includes six mainstage productions, several concert presentations, the company’s first-ever performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and a special Pride Concert. The  102 nd season … » Read

Another season, another chance for a living choreographer or two to contribute something lasting to the legacy of the preternaturally prolific George Balanchine. Four decades after his death, the current six-week winter chapter of The New York … » Read

The Aspen Music Festival and School’s 75 th -anniversary season balances appearances by its all-star alumni within its customary artists-in-training context. Running June 26-August 18, its highlights include two operas ( The Marriage of … » Read

The Canadian Opera Company’s (COC) 2024-25 season will include six mainstage productions, five of which are productions new to Toronto audiences. The schedule will also include a one-night-only concert presentation of Mascagni’s … » Read

An initial reading of the synopsis for Erismena can be daunting. The scenario for Francesco Cavalli’s 1655 opera trades in the disguises and mistaken identities so prevalent in Baroque dramaturgy, along with tangled lines of desire and … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — When the Metropolitan Opera last revived Verdi’s La Forza del Destino , a reviewer bemoaned its “four soul-numbing hours of ludicrous plot twists.” That’s harsh. But there’s no question the … » Read

The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) on behalf of some 3,000 instrumentalists working in the film and TV industry. Negotiations , which … » Read

On Feb. 19 Dennis Rooney died at his home in Delray Beach, FL. He was 82. Over a 60-year career, Rooney gained a reputation among classical music lovers for his work in broadcasting, recorded-sound production, criticism, and scholarship. He began … » Read

Frances (“Fran”) Richard, for many years vice president and head of ASCAP's Concert Music department, passed away on Feb. 2 at age 87. Richard joined ASCAP in 1985, where she worked closely with many of today’s leading American … » Read

LONDON—A program that opens with nine minutes of Giacinto Scelsi and ends with 20 minutes of Galina Ustvolskaya is perhaps not for the fainthearted. Unless, of course, you are the intrepid Patricia Kopatchinskaja [pictured]. Currently a … » Read