The Ojai Music Festival will mark its 80 th edition, June 11 to 14, 2026, with composer/conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director. The announcement comes several months before the 2025 event, June 5 to 8, in which Claire Chase serves as music … » Read

SAN FRANISCO—In January of 2024, San Francisco Symphony management announced a cost-cutting pullback from its popular SoundBox series. One previously scheduled concert was scrapped. Going forward, these late-night curated cabaret-style … » Read

Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over 51 years, has died. He was 83. Plishka died Monday at a hospice in Wilmington, North Carolina, his wife, Sharon Thomas, … » Read

Vanessa Reed, president and CEO of New Music USA, will return to the U.K to take the position of chief executive of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society (RLPS) as of June 2. She succeeds Michael Eaken, who exits in March after 16 years in the … » Read

This summer Marin Alsop will join the 10 th season of Prague Summer Nights: Young Artists Music Festival as distinguished guest conductor. The event, held in Vienna in 2025, offers young opera singers, instrumentalists, and conductors performance … » Read

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen has joined the roster at Intermusica for European management; Étude Artists provides general management for the American countertenor. Highly acclaimed for his work on both recital and opera stages,  he last … » Read

It’s no surprise but nonetheless disheartening to learn that, among victims of the current White House Administration’s directives, the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities (PCAH), which Biden resuscitated after his … » Read

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The reputation of Vanessa has gone through some rocky times. The Samuel Barber/Gian Carlo Menotti opera, the first new work of Rudolf Bing’s Metropolitan Opera intendancy, was generally lauded at its 1958 world … » Read

On Sept. 25 the Philadelphia Orchestra will kick off its 125 th season with Yuja Wang playing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G in Marian Anderson Hall to commemorate the 150 th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The orchestra’s … » Read

BOSTON—Imagine an opera with a gorgeous score by Wagner, Mahler, Puccini, Zemlinsky, Richard and Johann Strauss, and Erich Korngold, whose sweeping romantic soundtracks for The Adventures of Robin Hood and Anthony Adverse (among many … » Read