Czech conductor Zdenek Mácal, whose most recent music directorship was of the Czech Philharmonic, a post he held from 2003 to 2007, died on October 25 in Prague at age 87. A conductor of international repute, he was best known in the U.S. … » Read

Christoph Müller, artistic director of Switzerland’s Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy since 2002, will exit following the 2025 edition of an event inaugurated by its namesake in 1957. “[After] the completion of the … » Read

LYON, France—A stark thought occurred during the opening performance of Die Frau ohne Schatten (‘The woman without a shadow’) at the Opéra de Lyon in France. Is there another title in the repertory that makes such extreme … » Read

Long before the Gilmore Artist Award was awarded to Alexandre Kantorow last month, the French pianist had established himself as an exceptionally poetic keyboard personality, as witnessed in his  October 22 Carnegie Hall debut. Absolutely … » Read

On Sat., Oct 28, pops music made a triumphant return to Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center with afternoon and evening concerts by the recently formed No Name Pops . The 52 musicians, many of refugees from the now defunct Philly Pops, combined … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 10 years after it was first imagined as an opera , Grounded is ready to take flight. With music by Jeanine Tesori and a libretto adapted by George Brant from his own play, Grounded tells the story of an F-16 fighter … » Read

In 2014 Joel Thompson, “emotionally broken” after Eric Garner died at the hands of a New York City police officer, began to compose Seven Last Words of the Unarmed . He created a table with the seven last sayings of Christ on the … » Read

Sadly for those not in the know, because it is long sold out, Les Arts Florissants’s magical new staging of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen comes to Alice Tully Hall on November 2. It represents the sole U.S. stop on an otherwise … » Read

Far from the Bronx, where hip-hop was born a half-century ago, the French-Algerian choreographer Mourad Merzouki [pictured] keeps collaboration—the essential spirit of hip-hop—alive. Originally created by turntable musicians, dancers … » Read

Ongoing turmoil at the governance level of the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity led the Alberta government’s Advanced Education Minister Rajan Sawhney to replace all of the Center’s board of directors with a single administrator. … » Read