Puccini’s La bohème is one of the most popular operas in the canon—the Metropolitan Opera alone has performed it more than 1,200 times and is set to revive it again on April 21. But none of these productions, one can feel … » Read

Pianist, composer, painter, and author Stephen Hough has added a third title to a list of publications that already includes Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More   and the novel The Final Retreat . His late st, Enough: Scenes From … » Read

LOS ANGELES—After long, ultimately transformative tenures with Finland’s Lahti Symphony and then the Minnesota Orchestra, and shorter ones in Seoul, Scotland, and Iceland, Osmo Vänskä has hit the road as a guest conductor, … » Read

British pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen has signed with HarrisonParrott for worldwide management. Having just made her recital debut at Elbphilharmonie last week, Momen, 32, has performed Stateside at New York’s 92 nd Street Y and the … » Read

In the past few years, social movements like #MeTo and Black Lives Matter have prompted an unprecedented broadening of the American orchestral repertoire as the works of neglected composers—primarily women and people of color—are … » Read

Royce Saltzman, co-founder of the Oregon Bach Festival and for over five decades a professor of choral music at the University of Oregon, died on April 3. He was 94. Beginning in 1964, he joined the University in Eugene, serving as a professor, … » Read

The Saint Louis Symphony has hired Paul Pietrowski as its new COO, effective today; Pietrowski most recently was orchestra, production, and operations manager of the Cincinnati Symphony, for six years. He held a similar position with the Richmond … » Read

When Champion has its company premiere at the Metropolitan Opera tonight, patrons accustomed to sword battles, duels with pistols, poisonings, and thunderbolts from the gods will for the first time witness fisticuffs. Terence Blanchard and … » Read

The recent award of an Olivier Award (the U.K.’s equivalent to a Tony) to the Royal Opera House’s new production of Handel’s Alcina offered the show’s designer Anthony McDonald and its director Oliver Mears the opportunity … » Read

The Lubbock (TX) Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and Lubbock Chamber Orchestra (LCO) have joined forces, with the latter now folding into the former while maintaining its conductor, Eric Allen. The LCO, with an annual budget of $50,000 and only two … » Read