The Kulas Foundation has made a multi-year commitment of $2 million to the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM). The gift consists of a one-time $1 million leadership gift and a pledge of $150,000 in annual operating support for seven years. The … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh off a triumphant debut, French tenor Benjamin Bernheim seems likely to become a familiar presence at the Metropolitan Opera. Just not too familiar, he hopes. Bernheim, already a star at major European houses, is one … » Read

MILAN—On Nov. 26, Naples’s famed the Teatro di San Carlo was due to open its season with a highly anticipated new production of Don Carlo , staged by Claus Guth before an illustrious audience including Italy’s foreign and … » Read

For more than a decade, Scottish composer James MacMillan had to keep a secret about “one the most significant things that has ever happened to me.” His secret—that he had written an anthem for the funeral service of Queen … » Read

The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation for the Arts, established in May 2022 to accept the proceeds from the record-breaking sale of the couple’s art collection, has pledged what amounts to the largest gift ever received by the San Francisco … » Read

Lisa Batiashvili, the Georgian-born German violinist who was Musical America’s  2015 Instrumentalist of the Year, is leading an effort that has thus far raised over $105,000 to provide immediate aid to more than 180 Ukrainian … » Read

British composer Julian Anderson has won the 2023 Grawemeyer Award for Music for Litanies , a 25-minute cello concerto premiered in 2020 by German cellist Alban Gerhardt, its dedicatee, and the National Orchestra of France at the Radio France … » Read

Rafael Payare, a conductor on the rise, made his debut with the New York Philharmonic last week and brought with him a work never before played by the orchestra. This in itself would not be particularly unusual, except that the work was a … » Read

LONDON—John Wilson and his resurrected Sinfonia of London have been gathering numerous plaudits over the four brief years of their existence, albeit mostly for work on disc. This December 2 live outing at London’s Barbican Center was … » Read

PRAGUE — An original manuscript in Beethoven's hand is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, whose members had to flee the country to escape the Holocaust. The Moravian Museum in the Czech … » Read