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

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