The recent performance of an abridged version of Jake Hegge’s Dead Man Walking at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. was years in the making. Joyce DiDonato, who portrays Sister Helen Prejean in the Met’s season-opening … » Read

Central City Opera, which came close to losing its entire summer season due to  thorny AGMA negotiations that went on for more than six months, has named Scott Finlay as its new president and CEO. He succeeds Pamela Pantos, who exited rather … » Read

There seem to be “multiple Nosedas,” suggests critic David Patrick Stearns when scrutinizing the space(s) conductor Gianandrea Noseda (Musical America’s 2015 Conductor of the Year ) currently occupies in the classical music … » Read

The 77th annual Tony Awards will be held at the soaring David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on the Upper West Side, organizers said Wednesday, moving the celebration of Broadway brilliance to the performing arts complex for the first time. … » Read

The 2023 crop of MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant recipients, each of whom receives $800,000, includes two composers. Raven Chacon [pictured], 45 and from Red Hook, NY, is cited as “a composer and artist whose performances … » Read

CHICAGO— “The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. There is hardly a moment in between.” Those words are Gertrude Stein’s, first delivered nearly a century ago in a lecture at … » Read

The letter by Deborah S. Proctor, general manager of the NPR station WCPE in North Carolina, defending her decision to refuse to broadcast six contemporary operas scheduled for the Metropolitan Opera this season has generated more than 125,000 … » Read

The Oct. 1 announcement that the musicians, board, and management of the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) have  agreed to a short-term labor contract was absent the celebration that usually accompanies a completed negotiation. Instead, it has … » Read

Pasadena Symphony and POPS has named Andrew Brown to succeed Lora Unger as its CEO, following Unger’s departure in May to become executive director of the Performing Arts Center Eastside in Bellevue, WA. COO Drew Flaherty has been … » Read

LONDON —None of the three previous collaborations between composer George Benjamin and librettist Martin Crimp brimmed with humor, so it was a pleasant surprise to find sunny spells breaking out during the prevailing despair of their latest … » Read