The newly formed  San Antonio Philharmonic has purchased the assets of the defunct San Antonio Symphony with unspecified financial resources made available by David Wood and Colette Holt, and by the American Federation of Musicians Local 23. … » Read

With support from the Ford Foundation, the Denyce Graves Foundation has launched “Shared Voices,” a partnership designed to offer opportunities for young singers from diverse backgrounds. In describing the initiative, the … » Read

LONDON—When it comes to the Royal Opera’s Verdi, gray is the new Technicolor. The rot set in nine years ago with a Nabucco of the utmost dreariness, a gloom surpassed in 2016 by its most recent Il trovatore . However, with this new … » Read

Three former Naples Philharmonic musicians have sued Artis—Naples, the ensemble’s parent organization, to contest their dismissal on June 30, 2022, for refusing to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. The plaintiffs are: 17-year veteran … » Read

Puccini’s La bohème , a staple of the opera world for more than a century, begins with a budding romance and concludes with a tragic death. What would happen, wondered the iconoclastic director Yuval Sharon, if the story was told in … » Read

As orchestras continue to fill their ranks post-pandemic (knock on wood), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointments of Daniel Carson and Beatrice Chen as the newest members of the bass and viola sections. Carson, principal … » Read

Gustav Mahler’s autograph score of his Symphony No. 2, Resurrection , now belongs to the Cleveland Orchestra, a gift from Herbert G. Kloiber, an Austrian media tycoon and orchestra trustee. “The manuscript,” exclaimed … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover. Five year later she’s back in a role … » Read

The first product of the Emerging Black Composers Project , the two-year-old commissioning project of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is set for its premiere on Sept. 29 with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting … » Read

Elias Grandy, general music director of the City of Heidelberg, inclusive of its opera and philharmonic, will step down at the end of the season after eight years in the job. Grandy, 42, has been taking on increasing guest conducting jobs of late … » Read