SANTA FE, NM—Though its first performance was in 1607, L’Orfeo is filling the new-commission slot for this summer’s Santa Fe Opera season. The company asked Nico Muhly, whose own operas have been staged by the Met, to … » Read

In a letter issued to Cleveland Institute of Music staff, faculty, and board members, Dean Southern, acting Tiitle IX coordinator & VP of academic and student affairs, reports that Title IX allegations against Carlos Kalmar, the … » Read

Despite the ongoing legal standoff between POKC (Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center, Inc.) and the Philly Pops, this upcoming Christmas season Verizon Hall will host A Very Philly Christmas , nine holiday pops concerts from Dec. 1 to Dec. … » Read

After three decades, the Goldner String Quartet will play its final concert at the end of next season, on Aug. 5, 2024. The venue for the group’s swan song—the Australian Festival of Chamber Music—is thoroughly appropriate: the … » Read

South Korean conductor Hankyeol Yoon, 29, has won the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award, a biannual competition whose latest iteration took place last weekend at the Salzburg Festival. He was among the 323 candidates from 54 countries … » Read

The opening of the three-week Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) on Aug. 5 marked two significant “firsts” for the 76-year-old event. The appointment of violinist Nicola Benedetti as director this past March meant that this season … » Read

HarrisonParrott has signed two new artists, one of them new to management, the other having had several, even though he’s only 22 years old. That would be Swedish-Belarusian violinist Daniel Lozakovich, a recent member of a piano trio at … » Read

SALZBURG, Austria — Cecilia Bartoli has a favorite role she wished she could sing. “There is one character which I was always in love with since I started my Mozart career, and it’s Don Giovanni,” she said. “With me, … » Read

On Aug. 12-13, the Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO) will perform for the first time in Hong Kong since the death in 2020 of its co-founder and longtime director Richard Pontzious. An American who was conductor-in-residence at the prestigious Shanghai … » Read

LONDON—A puzzled silence fell over the Royal Albert Hall after the premiere of Kafka’s Earplugs , a BBC commission by Irish composer Gerald Barry. But not for long: “That was rubbish!” shouted one man from the center … » Read