One of the major events of the international opera season has undergone a significant disruption, with Daniel Barenboim, now 79, having to pull out from the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s new Ring for health reasons. He has been … » Read

Pianist Gabriela Montero follows her own creative muse, with a flourishing career as both classical virtuoso and talented improviser. Her contrapuntally rich fantasies on themes (often suggested by audience members) have been captured on her 2006 … » Read

On Aug. 27 Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) conducted the penultimate concert of the summer season at Tanglewood with a performance one critic characterized as “another milestone in the institution’s rich history.” In March MTT had … » Read

The harp, an instrument long associated with female musicians and a standard classical repertoire, is undergoing a transformation as gender roles are redefined and new works are introduced. In a conversation for Van Magazine , Parker Ramsay … » Read

Bas Sheve ( Bathsheba ), one of the few pre-Holocaust Yiddish operas performed in Europe, enjoyed an unprepossessing, low budget premiere in Warsaw in May of 1924. Its composer Henech Kon provided a piano accompaniment and also sang the bass … » Read

The Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) has named Sonja Kostich as its new executive director, effective in mid-October 2022 after board approval. She succeeds Cora Cahan, the organization's president and CEO from October 2019 and credited with … » Read

Following its final performance of the season last Friday, the La Jolla Music Society SummerFest announced that it had renewed pianist Inon Barnatan’s contract as music director of the series. Barnatan first signed in … » Read

The Nashville Symphony has promoted its assistant conductor Nathan Aspinall , in the job since 2019, to associate as of this season, pointing to his reading last year of Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony as a particular success. Upcoming is … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera is dropping its vaccination requirement for audiences next season but still will mandate the wearing of masks. The decision announced Tuesday differentiates the Met from Broadway theaters, which l … » Read

Symphonic music in San Antonio seems to have at least nine lives. Just three months after the 83-year-old San Antonio Symphony (SAS) closed up shop , most of the ensemble’s former musicians are back as the San Antonio Philharmonic. The … » Read