Under its  new General Director and CEO Mena Mark Hanna, the Spoleto Festival is making key structural changes as part of a new strategic plan, set for completion by next February before the 2023 season (May 26-June 11) is announced. The new … » Read

Hannu Lintu, just into his second season as principal conductor of the Finnish National Opera , is to be music director of Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Orchestra as of September 2023, with 2024-25 designated as his first full season.  The … » Read

Conventional wisdom has long held that certain works in the canon are best played and recorded only by performers with years of experience. Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29, Hammerklavier , for instance, is not the province of the young. … » Read

As the Naples (FL) Philharmonic continues its search for a successor to Andrey Boreyko, who stepped down after eight seasons as music director last May, the orchestra has designated Canadian violinist James Ehnes to be its artistic … » Read

For a musician, the loss of their instrument can be devastating. Nicole Boyesen, a double bassist with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, still finds the experience “heartbreaking” 42 years after her instrument went missing while she … » Read

PRAGUE (AP)— Czech conductor Libor Pešek, best known for leading the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for a decade, died on Oct. 23. He was 89. His death was reported Jan Hasenöhrl, director of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra … » Read

SAN DIEGO—At the center of El último sueño de Frida y Diego ( The Last Dream of Frida and Diego ), Frida Kahlo decides to cross over from the underworld and return to the realm of the living. It’s a conceit that cries … » Read

In its official U.K. premiere staging, the Scottish Opera’s new production of Ainadamar by composer Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang has met with a rapturous reception. Following its Glasgow premiere on Oct. 29, a critic for … » Read

T he Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the now nearly 40-year-old organization credited with creating the city’s 14-block “cultural district,” as a means of socio-economic revitalization, has announced a new president and … » Read

If constant reminders that women are grossly underrepresented in the classical music world had the ability to remedy the problem, gender inequities would have disappeared some time ago. But identifying a problem is not the same thing as solving … » Read