The surprise announcement that ACE had  slashed ENO’s funding on Nov. 4 set off a wave of protests throughout the U.K.’s cultural community, with accusations that Arts Council had determined that  “opera has… … » Read

Despite widespread opposition from within the South African classical music community,  the  newly formed Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra has announced its first national tour. The inaugural concert is scheduled for Dec. 15 in … » Read

British conductor Jonathan Cohen is to succeed Harry Christophers as artistic director of the Boston-based Handel and Haydn Society. Christophers stepped down at the close of 2021. Cohen, at age 44, becomes one of the youngest of the 14 past … » Read

LOS ANGELES – Lately, Rhiannon Giddens has been, and will be, visible all over Southern California. She turned up at the 2021 Ojai Festival in several programs that ran the table of her multiple interests and talents. This past October, she … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — A representative for Roberta Flack announced Monday that the Grammy-winning musician has ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and can no longer sing. The progressive disease “has made it impossible to … » Read

From the auditions of 12 semi-finalists that took place in Manhattan over the weekend, Young Concert Artists has chosen the winning four: American mezzo-soprano Erin Wagner , 24, a first-year Houston Grand Opera Studio artist and winner of … » Read

American conductor Joshua Weilerstein , London-based, is to be the new chief conductor of the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble in Northern Denmark founded in 1943. He first led the orchestra in 2011 and, in 2023-24, will be stepping into a … » Read

Sarah Caggiano, recent executive director of continuing and expanded education at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), has joined the New England Conservatory with a mandate to expand its Preparatory School (NEC Prep) offerings as well as … » Read

In “Wind & Wave,” the National Symphony Orchestra offered a program apparently inspired by works named for the sea and sky. The Nov. 10 evening began with the overture to Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer in a … » Read

On Nov. 2 three protesters representing the global environmental movement organization Extinction Rebellion disrupted a performance by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. … » Read