The three seem an unlikely team: Composer Nico Muhly, harpist Parker Ramsay, and librettist Alice Goodman have gathered round the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, united by their Anglican sympathies and affiliations, and created The Street. The piece … » Read

The U.K. is currently celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, a composer whose visionary music and radical politics are in contrast to the comfy slippers that would be imposed on him by a post-Brexit heritage … » Read

As of September 2025, the 41-year-old Czech conductor Jakub Hruša will become the new music director of the Royal Opera House. He succeeds Antonio Pappano, who steps down at the end of the 2023-24 season after 22 years, the longest tenure … » Read

PETA Deutschland has asked the Berlin State Opera to remove all live animals from  Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov's current productions of Das Rhinegold and Die Walküre . In a public appeal, the German arm of the world’s … » Read

With masking no longer required in much of New York City, including Broadway theaters and schools, venues historically associated with the classical performing arts—Koch Theater at Lincoln Center along with the Met Opera, the Film Society, … » Read

A century ago, the largely self-taught Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos introduced himself to the avant-garde elite of Paris, saying “I didn’t come to study with you. I came to show you what I’ve done.” Over the … » Read

La Musica International Chamber Music Festival, in Sarasota, FL, has selected Wu Han as its new artistic director. She succeeds Bruno Giuranna, who co-founded the festival 37 years ago. In announcing the appointment, the festival’s board … » Read

The Miami-based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, already a major supporter of the New World Symphony, has made a $10M investment to enhance the efforts of its Knight New Media Center in strengthening the integration of technology and music … » Read

For anyone who grew up playing the piano only to lose the habit and the discipline (not to mention the technique) as the years passed by, a wonderfully convincing article in the Atlanti c bears the directive, and the title, “Go Ahead, Buy a … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO--In a fitting preview of what was to come, Yuja Wang had the opening measures of Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 3 all to herself. The dynamic, harmonically dense work received its world premiere by the San Francisco … » Read