Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has released "Culture Connects: An Action Plan for Culture in Toronto,” which outlines an ambitious ten-year plan that commits the city to a “future where culture is accessible to all." For five years, … » Read

HELSINKI (AP)—Prolific Finnish conductor and composer Leif Segerstam, one of the most colorful personalities in the Nordic country’s classical music scene, will be remembered in a tribute event at the Finnish National Opera following … » Read

Intermusica, a London-based artist management firm that has been expanding by leaps and bounds over the last several years, has “integrated” with Wittenberg Artists, enlarging the former’s roster to 170 and adding a New York … » Read

Ainadamar , Osvaldo Golijov’s elegy for the venerated Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca to a libretto by David Henry Huang, has had a healthy life following an artistically premature world premiere at Tanglewood in … » Read

Like most of his oeuvre, Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde is not for the faint of heart, be they singers, orchestra musicians, or audience members. At more than 650 pages, the full score can take anywhere from three and three-quarter to … » Read

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation awarded the 2025 Ensemble Prizes to Collective lovemusic and Tacet(i) on Oct. 17. The prize, established in 2020, carries a €75,000 cash award. Founded in 2018 by clarinetist Adam Starkie and flutist … » Read

After 36 years, Jay Fishman plans to retire this month as artistic director and conductor of the Minnesota Sinfonia. His departure will also mark the end of the ensemble itself. The annual budget ranges between $400,000 and $700,000, an amount … » Read

Who would have thought that the opening of a concert space in a subterranean crypt would be a significant development on the New York music scene? Death of Classical, the organization that presents often-challenging programs in what it describes … » Read

LONDON—Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place has a reputation as a problem work. The sequel to his 1952 two-hander Trouble in Tahiti , it explores the repercussions of the turbulent marriage depicted in the earlier work. Badly received at … » Read

Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who turns 80 in December, continues to confound medical experts who told him he had 12 to 18 months to live when he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, three years ago. Within the … » Read