Simon Preston, an organist, conductor, and composer of international repute, died on May 13. He was 83. One of the most important church musicians of his time, Preston is widely credited with playing a leading role in reinvigorating the English … » Read

LONDON--Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers has a reputation as the only English opera of note between Purcell and Britten, and yet it’s hardly ever staged. There was a pioneering recording made nearly 30 years ago and the Bard Music … » Read

DETROIT – Why did it take so long for X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X to receive its first major revival? After all, the opera on the iconic Nation of Islam (NOI) civil rights leader, with pulsating music by Anthony Davis and a libretto … » Read

For the first time since the coronavirus shuttered the world of classical music, the New York Philharmonic has ventured abroad, performing three concerts between May 20 and May 24 on Germany's Baltic Sea island of Usedom. The occasion celebrates … » Read

Last fall Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones opened the season at the Metropolitan Opera, the first work by a Black composer to ever be performed in the 138-year history of the company. The opera is the second by the jazz … » Read

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the unforgettable Academy Award-winning score for the film Chariots of Fire and music for dozens of other movies, documentaries and TV series, has died at 79. Greek … » Read

If you’ve ever had the privilege of talking with Steve Reich, you’ll know the thoughts come thick and fast—so fast sometimes you can barely keep up. The beauty of Conversations is how all that wisdom and knowledge has been … » Read

Larry Edelson , founding artistic and executive director of the American Lyric Theater, is to step down from his additional post as Opera Saratoga’s artistic and general director at the end of the 2022 summer festival. He has been in the … » Read

The city of Prague has named Bjarke Ingels Group, with offices in Copenhagen and New York, as the designer of its new Vltava Philharmonic Hall. An international jury reviewed plans submitted by 19 global architectural firms before reaching a … » Read

WRR, the first licensed broadcast station in Texas and one of the oldest operating radio stations in the country, is about to get new management. Owned and operated, albeit fitfully at times, by the city of Dallas since its founding in 1921 in a … » Read