Du Yun is a Shanghai- and U.S.- trained composer and performer, now based in New York. Her best-known works are the opera Angel’s Bone , first heard in 2016 at the Prototype Festival in New York and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for … » Read

One needn’t look far for premieres of new music in the New York Philharmonic’s current season, but few will have the sheer size or impose the interpretive challenges of Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg’s Third Piano Concerto. … » Read

Bernadette Horgan, director of public relations for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and as such a member of the BSO senior management team, is stepping down from her position as of January 20.  She has been with the orchestra for 35 years, or, … » Read

The cutbacks to opera companies instituted by Arts Council England in November 2022 have claimed another victim—the touring program that Glyndebourne has offered for over 50 years. Stephen Langridge, the company’s artistic director, … » Read

Since 2017 Matthew Wright and Tim Vincent-Smith have been staging events around Edinburgh in pop-up  Pianodrome venues made entirely from “upcycled” pianos. The initial Pianodrome, located at the Royal Botanic Garden, attracted … » Read

Daniel Barenboim, among the world’s most highly visible conductors, has resigned as general music director of the Berlin Staatsoper, a position he has held since 1992.  His final day is January 31. “Unfortunately, my health has … » Read

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Prototype Opera Festival. Founded by 2021 MA Artist of the Year Beth Morrison and HERE, an off-off-Broadway venue, and initially bankrolled by the Mellon Foundation, the festival presents, in … » Read

Some of the boldest headlines in the performing arts last year were reverberations from Russian’s war on Ukraine. In addition to bombed-out theaters and silenced performances, artists’ careers, in some cases lives, were destroyed or … » Read

Pride of place as history’s first Black composer is often awarded to the 18 th -century French Creole, Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. But a growing body of scholarship suggests that the title more appropriately belongs to … » Read

Bachtrack’s 2022 report on live opera, dance, and classical music—culled from its annual international listings of 27,000 concerts—paints, if not a rosy picture, certainly one that shows an industry pulling out of the pandemic. … » Read