Danni Gee, longtime dance curator for Central Park’s free outdoor festival SummerStage, has been named director of programming for the Joyce Theater, New York’s core dance venue and presenter of small/visiting troupes. Gee is a former … » Read

INNSBRUCK, Austria—Operas of clemency have a reputation for lame drama. Feats of magnanimity, besides being implausible, tend to strike modern audiences as propaganda for reinforcing the status quo. But the other side of the coin is that … » Read

It took only three days for 30 aspiring musicians, all inmates at San Quentin prison, to compose an hour of original music and present a concert for 100 of their colleagues. On Monday, Aug. 8, the group began working with three professional … » Read

The role of Salome is a familiar one for Swedish soprano Malin Byström, whose Aug. 14 performance in concert at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall won rapturous praise from Mark Brown, theater critic for The Daily Telegraph . Byström had … » Read

The Pittsburgh Symphony musicians have extended their current contract--$100,000 base pay (most earn more)—by one year, bringing them into the 2023-24 season. The extension calls for a two percent increase in salary and $1,000 in media … » Read

PORTLAND, OR--Portland’s newest opera company, OrpheusPDX, began its inaugural season on August 4 with Monteverde’s L’Orfeo, a new production by Chas Rader-Shieber deftly tempered with a bit of humor, adding a refreshing breeze … » Read

GLYNDEBOURNE—The 2022 crop of English country house operas has been exceptionally good, yet Glyndebourne has saved the best until last. Music Director Robin Ticciati has teamed up with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and director Laurent … » Read

A fascination with the high male singing voice has accompanied the growing interest in gender fluidity. Countertenors are much in demand, particularly in Baroque opera and in some contemporary works. Much rarer are male sopranos—men whose … » Read

The Lucerne Festival, hardly a radical hotbed, is going against tradition this year and emphasizing diversity with a series of concerts featuring Black, Latino, and female artists. “We don’t have to be radical,” Michael … » Read

As of the fall of 2026, Jack Everly will step aside from one of the four orchestras that share him as principal pops conductor (Baltimore and Indianapolis symphonies, Naples Philharmonic, and Canada’s National Arts Center Orchestra). In … » Read