OPERA AMERICA wants to make it easier for opera fans who like to travel to attend performance throughout the U.S. and Canada. With Opera Passport, subscribers or donors to any one of 85 companies and individual members of OPERA America can … » Read

Lidiya Yankovskaya will exit as music director of the Chicago Opera Theater. Her last engagement will be in December, conducting Shostakovich’s The Nose in a new staging by Francesca Zambello. She leaves at the conclusion of her contract, … » Read

Absent since 2015, Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera returned to the Metropolitan Opera Friday night in an uneven revival that could have done with a few more rehearsals. The orchestra and especially the chorus had trouble keeping together under … » Read

Capitalizing on their shared music director, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra will together mount a festival honoring the 50 th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death in Leipzig, May 15-June 1, 2025. Andris … » Read

ISTANBUL (AFP)—Turkish composer and pianist Fazil Say has said his concerts planned this week in Switzerland were cancelled by organizers over his social media posts criticizing Israeli policies in Gaza. Say was due to perform with the City … » Read

While the Ukrainian military’s fight against Russian invaders is drawing intense international attention, the country’s musicians are waging a lower profile but nonetheless important battle to strengthen support for their nation. The … » Read

After 47 years and thousands of concerts worldwide, playing nearly 300 compositions and recording most of them, the Emerson String Quartet has called it quits. Actually, they called it quits twice. Most immediately with the second of two … » Read

It was a long time in coming, but Georgian-French pianist Khatia Buniatishvili finally performed a solo recital in Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall last Thursday evening (Oct. 19), having previously made her official Carnegie debut in Weill … » Read

Opera has long been among the most tradition-bound of the performing arts, featuring narratives shaped by mythology, Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, and other historical themes. But now, argues Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle , composers … » Read

On Oct. 19, Michael Tilson Thomas, music director laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, led a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. It was, notes Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle , “all too likely to be his final … » Read