The Boston Lyric Opera has named Bradley Vernatter as its general director and CEO, following his two years acting as GD and artistic director. The latter position has been spun off, at Vernatter’s suggestion, to be a dedicated one … » Read

After a two-year hiatus, Opera Philadelphia is back with Festival 022. The opening night was Toshio Hosokawa’s ten-year-old operatic theater piece, The Raven , based on Edgar Allen Poe’s 18-stanza poem. Eschewing social distancing, … » Read

Symphony, a new on-demand platform for streaming classical music, launches on Sept. 24 with the season opening of the Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam. The live concert, the first in a series dubbed "Symphony Night Live," will include … » Read

As the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) launches its 143 rd season, Music Director Stéphane Denève welcomes four new full-time musicians to the ensemble. Joining as second bassoonist is Julia Paine . A graduate of the University … » Read

The Kronos Quartet’s membership has remained remarkably consistent since its founding in 1973--save for the cello. As of February, it will replace Sunny Yang with Brooklyn-based multi-genre composer/cellist Paul Wiancko, one of the many … » Read

CARDIFF, WALES — A fable of lawyers and lovers, music and magic… On one level, Janácek’s yarn about a woman who outlives her natural lifespan by hundreds of years is a gothic opera of dark whimsy; on another it’s a … » Read

The Borodin Quartet, in existence since 1945, has selected a new first violinist in as Nikolai Sachenko, a former gold medalist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1998. He succeeds the retiring Ruben Aharonian, with the quartet since … » Read

Having essentially been dropped as artistic director of the Russian National Orchestra (RNO), the group he founded in 1990 with the support of the then-Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian conductor/pianist/composer Mikhail Pletnev, … » Read

The new film Chevalier , directed by Stephen Williams and written by Stefani Robinson, shines a light on Chevalier de Saint-Georges—born Joseph Bologne in Guadeloupe in 1745—who became a musical prodigy in the court of King Louis XVI … » Read

Following his year-long stint as interim, Matthew Spivey has been named CEO of the San Francisco Symphony, an organization he joined in 2015 as director of artistic planning under now laureate Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. He was made … » Read