Music streaming annually generates a $17 billion pool of royalties, 10 percent of which is stolen from the artists who create and perform the music. As David Post and Craig Blackwell, who perform as Bad Dog, discovered this past summer, this … » Read

LONDON—The final leg of Covent Garden’s 2023/24 season got underway January 13 with Christof Loy’s pandemic-delayed new production of Richard Strauss’s Elektra . With outgoing Music Director Sir Antonio Pappano at the helm … » Read

"Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice," Carnegie Hall’s latest citywide festival, is set to launch on Jan. 20 and run through May. Thirty concerts and events at Carnegie Hall as well as 70+ multidisciplinary offerings at … » Read

LONDON—The London Symphony Orchestra’s Janácek-in-concert series launched pre-pandemic with The Cunning Little Vixen , masterfully captured on the orchestra’s in-house label LSO Live. Last year’s incandescent … » Read

The 19 th -century tradition that audiences do not applaud between movements of symphonies, concertos, and other multi-section musical works is being increasingly ignored, sometimes at the behest of those claiming to “democratize” the … » Read

In 2015, Venezuelan conductor Ron Davis Álvarez was passing through a Swedish train station when he encountered teenage refugees from Syria and Afghanistan. This chance meeting would shortly change his life, as well as those of hundreds of … » Read

The Portland Opera is looking to sell its current office and performance space, known as the Hampton Opera Center—some 44, 835 square feet that houses all of its requisite functions, from costume building to performing. The company … » Read

British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig was arrested in London’s Victoria Station on Jan. 10 and charged with arranging/facilitating a child sexual offense and sexual communication with a child the following day. He was released on conditional … » Read

Anyone seeking evidence that women conductors are in ascendance need look no further than next summer’s Bayreuth Festival, which on Jan. 11 announced that Simone Young is to step in for Philippe Jordan to conduct the Der Ring des Nibelungen … » Read

Last night, on the stage of David Geffen, formerly Avery Fisher, Hall, violinist Hilary Hahn was awarded the $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize in recognition of her outstanding artistic achievement and leadership in classical music. The award, … » Read