MOSCOW—The live rounds of the 17 th International Tchaikovsky Competition opened on June 19 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with a gala performance by the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra and past laureates under the baton of Valery … » Read

The Brooklyn Academy of Music, at its height a breeding ground for richly innovative programming, has eliminated 26 positions, or 13 percent of its workforce, and reduced its programming for 2023-24. Its artistic director, David Binder, announced … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—Yannick Nézet-Séguin is remaking the Metropolitan Opera from the bottom up. When the 48-year-old conductor leans forward to extend his arms and emphasize vibrato or stretches high for a fortissimo during an … » Read

The Manchester (VT) Music Festival will have new leadership in place for its 50 th -anniversary season in the summer of 2024. As of October 1, 2023, Philip Setzer, violinist in the soon-to-retire Emerson String Quartet, takes the post of the … » Read

On June 30 EveR6, a human-like android robot, will join conductor Choi Soo-yeol on the podium of the National Orchestra of Korea for the country’s first robot-led musical performance. Created by the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology … » Read

For one hundred years the San Francisco Opera has been central to the city’s cultural life, a role celebrated with a gala concert at the War Memorial Opera House on June 6. The evening mixed sentiment with passionate music making, as vocal … » Read

CHICAGO—In April 1991 Georg Solti wrapped up his 22-year tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with two blockbuster programs: a concert version of Verdi’s complete Otello with a cast headed by Luciano Pavarotti … » Read

LONDON—On November 3, 1973, a 20-year-old Oxbridge organ scholar by the name of Peter Phillips conducted a group of lay clerks (professional church singers) and choral scholars in a concert of Renaissance music in St. Mary Magdalen's … » Read

Tulsa Opera has cancelled its two mainstage performances for 2023-24, The Pirates of Penzance in October and La Traviata in May. The announcement, coming on the heels of its 75 th- anniversary season, appeared on its website last week, along with … » Read

The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus , a vast music training program with seven choirs and a number of Grammy wins and nominations to its credit, has brought Kurt J. Swanson on board as interim executive director. He succeeds Andrew Bradford, … » Read