Julia Bullock, a key member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), music director of this year's  Ojai Music Festival, which opens on Thursday, tested positive for Covid-19 just prior to her planned flight to California from  … » Read

After 19 years and more than 750 performances, Osmo Vänskä will conduct his final; concerts as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in the coming weeks. He will leave an ensemble that has joined the first rank of orchestras in the … » Read

This week alone, competition results have been packing the Inbox. In addition to cellist Hayoung Choi’s win at the International Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, and Bertie Baigent’s at the first I nternational Conducting … » Read

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2021-22 season concluded on a week during which in the city alone 30 people were shot and five died due to gun violence. That same week 19 elementary school students and two teachers were shot to death in … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO--In his new Piano Concerto, Mason Bates doesn’t employ any of the electronica or DJ stylings that earmark a number of the composer’s other works. But when the piece received its first West Coast performances June 2-5, it … » Read

Not for the first time, a cell phone interrupted a key moment at La Scala yesterday. Last night during a performance of the “Patria oppressa” chorus from Macbeth, Riccardo Chailly stopped the entire Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and … » Read

MILAN — Milan’s famed La Scala opera house on Monday announced the celebration of next season’s gala premiere with the Russian opera Boris Godunov , a move it hopes will underline the separation of culture from politics. La … » Read

If you have a conscience, you'll want to make a donation: Carnegie Hall will stream a recording of its May 23 benefit Concert for Ukraine at no charge starting Wednesday afternoon, June 8, at 2 p.m., both on its website and social media channels. … » Read

The July auction of the “Hellier” Stradivarius at Christies’s London is projected to bring as much as $11.3 million. Made in 1679 by the Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari, the instrument is one of his earlier instruments … » Read

Composer Ingram Marshall, who melded electronics with standard orchestral instruments to create atmospheric, often melancholy works, died on May 31 in New Haven, CT. He was 80. Marshall’s music defied easy classification. Preferring to … » Read