The 1714 “da Vinci, ex-Seidel” Strad, anticipated to fetch  “up to $20 million” at auction by Tarisio, finally sold last week for 12.29 million euros, about $15.34 million, the second highest amount ever fetched for a … » Read

LONDON--With its quaint local color and swirling cinematic dramaturgy, The Adventures of Mr. Broucek is the trickiest of Janácek’s operas to pull off. Get it wrong and it comes across as a rambling bit of folkish whimsy, or worse, an … » Read

Barring a last-minute resolution, this weeks rounds of the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which are performed with the Fort Worth Symphony, will not be broadcast on Dallas’s classical radio station, WRR-FM. The local … » Read

For 75 years, the Ojai Music Festival, located in the Ojai Valley north of Los Angeles, has presented a three-day weekend packed full of performances curated by a music director chosen for a one-year term. More often than not, an individual has … » Read

Beginning in October 2022 and extending through June 2023, the Washington Performing Arts next season will explore the theme of The World in Our City . With more than 150 embassies and diplomatic representatives in the city, noted President & … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera sold 61 percent of available tickets this season after returning from a 1½ year absence, managing 196 staged performances without a cancellation. Sales were down from 75 percent in last … » Read

“Citizens: Listen! Look!” With that arresting command, declaimed from the stage of Davies Symphony Hall by actress Breezy Leigh, a June 11 San Francisco Symphony program devoted to Stravinsky’s Oedipus rex and Symphony of Psalms … » Read

Valérie Sainte-Agathe, artistic director and conductor of the San Francisco Girls Chorus since 2013, is the new director of the Philharmonia Baroque Chorale. She arrives at the end of Richard Edgarr’s first season as music director … » Read

Musicians of the New York Philharmonic have been made whole again, following understandable reductions to their salaries during the pandemic's 18 months of concert cancellations. Base pay will return to $2,952 per week, as it was in the 2019-2020 … » Read

As an exhausting season came to an end on June 10, the Metropolitan Opera could claim a very rare measure of success—not a single one of its nearly 200 performances was cancelled amid the ongoing turmoil resulting from the coronavirus … » Read