The Lyric Opera of Chicago has appointed Matthew Ozawa to the newly created position of chief artistic administration officer. He starts April 12. No stranger to the company, Ozawa has previously served as interim head of Lyric Unlimited, the … » Read

March was to be a busy month for the 29-year-old conductor Vitali Alekseenok, who was scheduled to lead concerts in Lviv, Dnipro, and Kyiv, and open the Kharkiv Music Festival as its new artistic director. But four days after the Russian invasion … » Read

Opera-in-concert is an essential component of a major orchestra’s programming arsenal and often a high point. In May, Franz Welser-Möst leads the Cleveland Orchestra in Verdi’s Otello . The Chicago Symphony follows suit in June … » Read

It’s a veritable building boom in the performing arts: Last week, Lincoln Center announced the near completion of the remade David Geffen Hall; yesterday the St. Louis Symphony unveiled the expansion and upgrading of Powell Hall ; and now, … » Read

Olga Smirnova, a principal soloist at the Bolshoi Ballet since 2016, is leaving the storied Russian company to join the Dutch National Ballet. Although she said in a news release that she had been contemplating a move for some time, she was … » Read

This year’s recipients of the £30,000 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Awards for musical excellence are Anastasia Kobelkin, cello; onetime Musical America New Artist Geneva Lewis, violin; James Newby, baritone; and Ema Nikolovska, … » Read

On Monday, the Metropolitan Opera used its power, its people, and its international profile to pay tribute to and raise funds for Ukraine as it resists the Russian invasion. Before a sold-out (within hours, apparently) house of 3,200 and an … » Read

Classical musicians around the world are using their talents to show their solidarity with Ukrainian. “Music is what some of us can give,” Marta Krechkovsky, a Ukrainian violinist who in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, tells the … » Read

LOS ANGELES – Though the inexhaustibly gifted Johann Sebastian Bach never wrote an opera, his mighty St. Matthew Passion comes close enough to tempt an opera company to try it on for size. So LA Opera rolled the dice Saturday night (Mar. … » Read

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced an ambitious plan to renovate and expand Powell Hall. Originally built in 1925 as the St. Louis Theater, a movie palace and vaudeville playhouse, the venue became the symphony’s permanent home … » Read