After months of stalled negotiations, capping years of the same and financial struggle, the San Antonio Symphony board has started proceedings for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Memo from the board: “With deep regret, the Board of Directors of the … » Read

Riccardo Muti, in his final concerts as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has tested positive for COVID-19 the orchestra announced Thursday. CSO’s Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice Lina González-Granados will take … » Read

On May 10, the members of the DaPonte String Quartet received a terse letter from the recently hired executive director notifying them that “your position as a salaried musician will be eliminated as of May 10, 2022.” Cellist Myles … » Read

Before Awakenings was a new opera by Tobias Picker, premiering at Opera Theater of St. Louis last week, it was a ballet, with a score also by Picker (completely different from the opera), as well as a 1990 film starring Robert DeNiro, and the … » Read

Jace Kaholokula Saplan (pictured), director of choral activities and associate professor of music learning & teaching and choral conducting at Arizona State University, is to be the next artistic director of  The Choral Arts Society of … » Read

It’s best not to look too closely at the plots of classical ballets. Rather than try to reason through the unrequited relationships, fairies, and blurred lines between animals and humans, it’s better to just let the stories be what … » Read

Each season the more than 80 permanent opera houses in Germany produce between seven and eight thousand performances, which is about one third of the world’s total. Italy, by contrast, presents fewer than two thousand. Such abundance is … » Read

With funding from the Mellon Foundation, the Houston Grand Opera (HGO) has hired its first full-time composer in residence. Joel Thompson, whose first opera, The Snowy Day (2021) was commissioned and premiered by HGO, has signed on with the … » Read

The growing enthusiasm for new operas too often collides with what the San Francisco Chronicle’ s Joshua Kosman has identified as the “second production” problem. As he explains it, the introduction of a new work, often amid … » Read

PARIS (AFP) – The director of dance at the Paris Opera, Aurelie Dupont, who faced criticism in the past over her leadership, announced her surprise resignation on Thursday. The 49-year-old ex-star dancer said she was devoting herself to new … » Read