Dec. 20 update: The Royal Opera House has cancelled the remaining Nutcracker performances and two performances of Nabucco , December 23 and 28, due to Covid. Over the weekend, Radio City Music Hall cancelled the remaining performances of its … » Read

On Dec. 9, students of the Tianjin Juilliard Orchestra performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G Major for the first time in concert, with Yu Long on the podium for his first time leading a student orchestra. Chair of the school’s … » Read

The recent release of Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story has revived the on-again off-again debate about where best to place this iconic work in the artistic firmament. Does it belong most comfortably to the world of musical … » Read

Pianist Host and Resident Artist, USC Radio Group During the pandemic, Lara Downes put her itinerant life as a concert pianist on pause and largely stayed home in California. That shutdown spawned a  burst of new projects by her. … » Read

Chamber music’s best known duo, David Finkel and Wu Han, will continue as co-artistic overseers of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) through the 2026-27 season, which, having started in 2004-05, makes them the 52-year-old … » Read

Swiss conductor Titus Engel , 46, is to succeed Baldur Brönnimann as chief conductor of the contemporary-music ensemble Basel Sinfonietta as of the 2023/24 season. Named Conductor of the Year in 2020 by Opernwelt magazine, he is known for … » Read

Director Beckmen YOLA Center at Los Angeles Philharmonic Youth programming at the Los Angeles Philharmonic received a strong injection of new energy recently, in the form of Camille Delaney-McNeil. Last May, the onetime musician and … » Read

The Juilliard School will enlarge its Black and Latino weekend student population by means of a $50 million grant from Crankstart, a California-based foundation created by venture capitalist Michael Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman. The monies … » Read

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) has appointed Craig Whitehead as interim CEO, effective immediately, in the wake of  Emma Dunch’s resignation on Dec. 10. Whitehead has considerable experience at senior executive levels in the … » Read

Black activist and bass-baritone Derrell Acon has been named to the newly created position of VP of People Operations & Inclusion for Opera Philadelphia, a post supported by a Re:imagining Recovery grant from The Pew Center for Arts & … » Read