SAN FRANCISCO—The San Francisco Symphony threw a party on Valentine’s Day. Bands of colored lights adorned the back wall at Davies Symphony Hall. Extra bars and concession stands did a lively business in the lobby. Patrons carried … » Read

The 2024-25 season of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO), the ensemble’s 145 th and Stéphane Denève’s sixth as music director, kicks off on Sept. 19 with the traditional free concert on Art Hill in Forest Park. Over … » Read

The orchestra of ENO has voted to stop all strike action planned for the middle of February after management agreed to revise its plans to dismiss all the musicians before rehiring them as part-time employees for six months of the year. Going … » Read

The BBC has announced that the BBC Singers will live on with ongoing financial support for staff from the BBC and educational support (as yet undefined) from the VOCES8 Foundation . The London-based group is both a performing entity and a … » Read

San Francisco Ballet has received $60 million from an anonymous donor, the largest gift in its 91-year history and perhaps the single largest to any U.S. ballet company. The gift exceeds SF Ballet’s annual, $55 million budget and is a clear … » Read

Hervé Boissière, founder and managing director of medici.tv, is to turn his attentions “exclusively” to the Verbier Festival as its new co-CEO, effective April 15. He will codirect the esteemed 30-year-old event together … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Gushing after the New York Philharmonic performed Leonard Bernstein’s music, Bradley Cooper talked about creating the film Maestro  in hopes of drawing more attention to the composer and conductor. “Many … » Read

With great fanfare , Opera Columbus (annual budget $1.5 million) “proudly unveils a historic moment in its rich artistic journey” by appointing Everett McCorvey as its first principal guest conductor, effective this month. He’ll … » Read

Enroute to finding a successor to Music Director Donato Cabrera, the Las Vegas Philharmonic has called on Leonard Slatkin to serve as artistic consultant, effective next season, the contents of which are to be announced presently. He next leads … » Read

Bowing to intense public pressure, the organizers of the Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival) have cancelled the appearance of Teodor Currentzis, who had been scheduled to conduct the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Germany in a performance of Benjamin … » Read