The Galloping Cure , a new opera under development by John Berry, former artistic director of English National Opera, promises a degree of timeliness absent from most modern works. The crisis of opioid addiction kills thousands of people every … » Read

The Juilliard School has selected the Katarina String Quartet as its next graduate resident string quartet, with its two-year residency beginning in September and extending through spring 2026. The Canadian foursome—violinists Jeanel Liang … » Read

We live in an increasingly noisy world, a state of existence exacerbated by our embrace of earbuds and headphones. Last year over half a billion pairs of headphones were sold, a number almost twice that of a decade ago. Many people wear earbuds … » Read

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped form millions of childhoods by penning the instantly memorable songs for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang … » Read

Leah Hawkins has been awarded the Met Opera's 2024, $50,000 Beverly Sills Artist Award. Her 2023-24 Met performances were in Verdi’s Requiem, as soprano soloist, and as Louise/Betty in the house premiere of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life … » Read

Environmental themes run through much of director Peter Sellars’s work. In his 2019 Salzburg Idomeneo , the god Neptune sought revenge on the human race for spoiling the oceans. His libretto for John Adams’s 2005 Doctor Atomic … » Read

In classical music, the infrequency with which a Black musician finds individual success is all too well known. Blind orchestra auditions may have helped to increase the number of women in American ensembles—by 2022 it was up to 47 … » Read

Peggy Kriha Miller, who joined the Virginia Opera as general director and CEO in October 2020, will be leaving in 2025, citing her desire to prioritize her family. Miller, who succeeded President and CEO Russell P. Allen when he retired, arrived … » Read

David Chan, concertmaster of New York’s MET Orchestra for the past 24 years, is expanding his portfolio as a conductor, becoming the new principal conductor for the Apollo Orchestra. Since its founding in 2010, the Washington, D.C.-based … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—The New York City Ballet is on a roll, celebrating its 75 th anniversary with artistic and fiscal health, much credit due to its artistic leaders of the past five years, Jonathan Stafford and Wendy Whelan. The two, both former … » Read