Four operas and six dance programs will comprise the Detroit Opera’s 2024-25 season. The former include Verdi’s La Traviata , Handel’s Rinaldo , Mozart’s Così fan tutte , and Anthony Davis’s The Central Park … » Read

BOSTON—The Celebrity Series of Boston was offering something of a rarity: an orchestral concert with a real point of view (March 17). The Orchestre de Paris, under Music Director Klaus Mäkelä, was presenting a program at Symphony … » Read

KETCHUM, Idaho—In the 1930s, an ingenious combination of marketing and new technology (the design of modern chairlifts) transformed this former mining town and sheep-farming center into the country’s first destination ski … » Read

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has named Mark Wigglesworth and Chloé Van Soeterstède as the ensemble’s respective new chief conductor and principal guest conductor. Each will begin a four-year term with the start of the … » Read

In unveiling the 2024-25 season, the New York Philharmonic continues to herald the arrival of Gustavo Dudamel as its next music director, even though his tenure doesn’t begin until the fall of 2026. Next season has him on the podium for … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—Hours after the stunning news broke that Esa-Pekka Salonen would be stepping down as music director of the San Francisco Symphony, effective at the end of his five-year contract in June of 2025, he took the podium at Davies … » Read

On St. Patrick’s Day the Metropolitan Opera announced the five winners of the 2024 Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. The 70-year-old competition, once known as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, attracted more than … » Read

The stench emanating from Arts Council England’s decision in November 2022 to dramatically cut funding for the nation’s leading opera companies refuses to dissipate, due in no small part to the agency’s  continuing assault … » Read

Although his tenure as music director will last another 15 months or so, the autopsy of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s time with the San Francisco Symphony has already begun. What “all began so promisingly,” writes Joshua Kosman in the San … » Read

On paper, the program for the Takács Quartet’s recent 92nd Street Y appearance was unremarkable: standard works by Haydn and Beethoven sandwiching a piece of new music. But the March 13 concert carried no trace of routine, … » Read