When Valentina Peleggi, music director of the Richmond Symphony, mounted the podium on April 1 to conduct George Walker’s Icarus in Orbit and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection , she and her musicians debuted a new, custom-designed … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—Lincoln Center will hold its second Summer for the City festival June 14 to Aug. 12. The large disco ball and dance floor will return. The event currently is set to include 193 events, including 50 on the plaza dance floor, 37 … » Read

AIX-EN-PROVENCE—While summer here has long been synonymous with great opera, for the past ten years a second festival has joined its elder brother and become an indelible fixture on the springtime calendar. The Aix Easter Festival has fast … » Read

To allay fears that its summer festival may not go ahead as planned, June 24-August 6, Central City Opera has issued a press release stating that it is continuing to “negotiate in good faith” with AGMA, even after five months of … » Read

The Israel Philharmonic has named Alisa Meves as its new head of artistic operations. Meves served as personal assistant to Valery Gergiev for some three decades. Gergiev, it will be recalled, is a close friend and supporter of Vladimir Putin and … » Read

When the Khmelnitsky Orchestra performed its Harry Potter show on a tour of Belgium last year, the deputy British ambassador in Brussels praised it as “an incredible honor to have such an iconic part of British culture being performed by a … » Read

May 5, 2023 is the deadline for composers submitting to the Azrieli Music Prizes. Awarded every two years in four categories—commissions for International Music, Jewish Music, and Canadian Music as well as the Jewish Music Prize—each … » Read

In the latest chapter of the life and death of the Philly Pops, the group has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center, Inc. alleging that POKC is trying to put the Pops out of business. POKC, it will be … » Read

Gianandrea Noseda’s tenure as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, which began in 2017, continues on its upward trajectory, with the orchestra’s visit to Carnegie Hall coming up on April 18 and an … » Read

Laura Canning, director of artistic administration at Garsington Opera, is to be the new general director and CEO of Opera North, succeeding Richard Mantle, who is retiring after 29 years in the job. Canning has been with Garsington—a … » Read