Three former Naples Philharmonic musicians have sued Artis—Naples, the ensemble’s parent organization, to contest their dismissal on June 30, 2022, for refusing to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. The plaintiffs are: 17-year veteran … » Read

Puccini’s La bohème , a staple of the opera world for more than a century, begins with a budding romance and concludes with a tragic death. What would happen, wondered the iconoclastic director Yuval Sharon, if the story was told in … » Read

As orchestras continue to fill their ranks post-pandemic (knock on wood), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointments of Daniel Carson and Beatrice Chen as the newest members of the bass and viola sections. Carson, principal … » Read

Gustav Mahler’s autograph score of his Symphony No. 2, Resurrection , now belongs to the Cleveland Orchestra, a gift from Herbert G. Kloiber, an Austrian media tycoon and orchestra trustee. “The manuscript,” exclaimed … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover. Five year later she’s back in a role … » Read

The first product of the Emerging Black Composers Project , the two-year-old commissioning project of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is set for its premiere on Sept. 29 with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting … » Read

Elias Grandy, general music director of the City of Heidelberg, inclusive of its opera and philharmonic, will step down at the end of the season after eight years in the job. Grandy, 42, has been taking on increasing guest conducting jobs of late … » Read

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rossini’s Otello premiered in 1816, and the musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play was a hit for seven decades. Then Verdi’s version debuted in 1887 and was acclaimed as a pinnacle of the art … » Read

Since the pandemic, quite a number of new musicians have joined the Dallas Symphony, including former Atlanta Symphony principal trumpet Stuart Stephenson, succeeding the late Ryan Anthony in that role with the DSO. Also new are associate … » Read

LONDON—Last year, Edward Gardner  opened the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s season with Michael Tippett’s glorious, yet rarely performed opera, The Midsummer Marriage . If that proved the incoming principal … » Read