HOUSTON—This city’s major opera company pulled out all stops for its new production of Parsifal , seen January 19 th . Directed by John Caird and not seen here since 1992, it was originally planned for 2021, but was postponed due to … » Read

On January 19, the Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative (AOI) introduced three new operas in the earliest stages of their development. Working with a trio of mentors—conductor David Bloom, playwright and librettist … » Read

French pianist/conductor Victorien Vanoosten is the new music director of the Toulon (FR) Opera, effective next month. The post has been vacant since the exit of Jurjen Hempel in 2021, with Marzena Diakun and Valério Galli serving as … » Read

On Feb. 22-23, Let HER MUSIC Play , a 24-hour live-streamed concert, will showcase music exclusively by women and non-binary composers and songwriters in an effort to set a new Guinness World Record for the “Longest Acoustic Music … » Read

Krzysztof Urbanski has been named music director of the Warsaw Philharmonic. His five-year contract begins at the start of the 2024-25 season and extends for five years. He succeeds Andrzej Boreyko, in the post since 2019. The 41-year-old … » Read

On Jan. 18 Dalia Stasevska made a triumphant return to the podium in Davies Symphony Hall with a program of Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World and Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with pianist Seong-Jin Cho making his … » Read

On January 19, following his recital of Brahms’s complete late piano works, Russian-born German pianist Igor Levit, 36, became the youngest artist ever to receive the Wigmore Hall Medal. Since making his debut at age 13 at Great … » Read

In announcing its first full season as a member of the “10 top-tier opera companies,” the Atlanta Opera outlines several presenting priorities, including new works by underrepresented creators, standard mainstage repertoire, and … » Read

Peter Schickele, better known for his “discovery” of P.D.Q. Bach than for his serious compositions under his own name, died on Jan. 16 at age 88. Schickele first introduced the public to the works of P.D.Q. Bach—"the last and by … » Read

Mitsuko Uchida, known for her peerless pianism in the works of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, and countless others, turns out to be a pretty savvy contemporary-music programmer as well. As music director of this year’s Ojai Music Festival, … » Read