A snow fall during a performance of a Christmas concert at Glyndebourne on Dec. 11 led to an extended afternoon for many of the 1,200 concertgoers. “Sunday's Christmas concert turned out to be rather more festive than we had … » Read

Some 36 years after its founding, the last 30 of them with the same personnel, the Orion String Quartet will retire at the close of the 2023-24 season with a concert at the Chamber Music Society (CMS) of Lincoln Center. The news arrives slightly … » Read

The orchestra world has two new finance chiefs, one in Los Angeles and one in New York. Glenn Briffa [pictured] has been installed as CFO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, having served as interim since July, when he succeeded Karen Sturges, in … » Read

The Salzburg Festival has announced plans for its 2023 six-week, midsummer calendar of more than 200 performances of operas, spoken drama, orchestra concerts, and recitals. The program has been constructed, explains Markus Hinterhäuser, the … » Read

This season is contralto-cum-conductor Nathalie Stutzmann’s first as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and has thus far drawn an ambivalent response from the local music critic. Her third appearance on the podium—for a … » Read

At 26, Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä, who made his New York Philharmonic debut last week, is a year older than Leonard Bernstein was when he first appeared with the orchestra, as a replacement for Bruno Walter in a broadcast … » Read

The gloom and doom that is currently pervading much of the opera world has failed to reach Canadian shores, where the Canadian Opera Company reported an average mainstage attendance rate of 94 percent for the 2021-22 season. “I … » Read

The Berlin Staatsoper has announced that Music Director Daniel Barenboim will return to the podium for its New Year’s concerts with the Staatskapelle on December 31 and January 1. The 80-year-old conductor was diagnosed with a serious … » Read

French conductor Stéphane Denève is having his moment. The music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, recently named artistic director of the New World Symphony, and the subject of a  positive NY Times review as a … » Read

A strike by untenured adjunct faculty and lecturers , who comprise almost 90 percent of the instructional staff at the New School, including Mannes, ended on Dec. 10. The ACT-UAW Local 7902 reached a tentative agreement that will provide … » Read