This summer’s centennial season for the Hollywood Bowl will kick off on June 11 and 12, when the Los Angeles Philharmonic hosts a free weekend festival at the Bowl and a second venue at The Ford. Over the following three months, the musical … » Read

Colorado’s Central City Opera, which prides itself on being the country’s fifth oldest professional opera company, has appointed a new president and CEO in Pamela Pantos, current development director of the Boston Children’s … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO--In an eventful program of high contrasts timed to help mark the Lunar New Year, the San Francisco Symphony presented works by Korean-born Texu Kim and Younghi Pagh-Paan, China native Zhou Long, and Takashi Yoshimatsu, who hails … » Read

LOS ANGELES – Late one night two decades ago, Esa-Pekka Salonen, architect Frank O. Gehry, and LA Philharmonic concertmaster Martin Chalifour donned hard hats and ventured downtown to an unfinished shell of a building that was soon to … » Read

Peter Oundjian, former longtime music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, recently named music director of the Colorado Music Festival , is to be principal conductor of the Colorado Symphony Association. The post, newly created, commits … » Read

Three major New York-based foundations are underwriting a $125mn program to offer 2,400 artists across New York State a guaranteed monthly income of $1,000 over 18 months. Another 300 will receive a $65,000-a-year job with a community-based … » Read

Foundations in Detroit and New York have recently awarded funding to support both well-established institutions and newly minted opera producers and administrators. In Detroit the William Davidson Foundation has announced respective grants of … » Read

To a director keen to make a statement, Fidelio can seem like a gift. Beethoven’s only opera, about the wife of a political prisoner who assumes a false identity to take on a job as an assistant warden and save her husband from … » Read

LONDON--When Galuppi and Lotti are among the better-known names on the program, you know you’re in for an evening of musical discoveries. That’s a fairly typical bill of fare where countertenor Jakub Józef Orlinski is … » Read

The Dallas Symphony has a new assistant conductor in Maurice Cohn , who in October led the orchestra in the premiere of Mason Bates’s Philharmonia Fantastique. He serves as cover for Music Director Fabio Luisi and oversees family concerts … » Read