SANTA MONICA – If you were an operagoer in Southern California last week, your fix of the irrational art form might have taken place in a Santa Monica parking lot at 5th St. and Arizona Ave. You would have been sitting in a row of … » Read

Serbian soprano Sonja Šaric [pictured] has won first prize as well as the audience award at the 4 th Éva Marton International Singing Competition, which concluded on Sept. 5 at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. She has studied at the … » Read

Since YouTube Music launched its Premium service in 2014, it has attracted over 50 million subscribers; 20 million of those signed up just within the past year. While Spotify dominates the global market with 165mn subscribers, neither Apple Music … » Read

German media are reporting that Eva Wagner-Pasquier, 76, great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner and former artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival with Katharina Wagner, is in a coma. She was apparently pulled out of the Isar River—a … » Read

Adam Krauthamer, president of New York Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), has announced he will not run for a second three-year term this fall. The 37-year-old, Curtis and Yale-educated French horn player ran a  … » Read

Conveniently timed on a night off for the Bayreuth Festspiele audience, the Internationale Siegfried Wagner Gesellschaft presented on August 21 a rare, staged performance of its namesake’s Der Friedensengel (The Angel of Peace) at the … » Read

When Andrew Yee, a member of the Grammy award-winning Attacca Quartet, showed up for an Air Wisconsin flight to Fargo with his cello in hand, the airline refused him boarding, despite his purchase of a separate ticket for the instrument. … » Read

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Mikis Theodorakis, the beloved Greek composer whose rousing music and life of political defiance won acclaim abroad and inspired millions at home, died Thursday. He was 96. His death at his home in central Athens was … » Read

In a move that has left the Winston-Salem Symphony in the lurch on the eve of its 75 th- anniversary season, British conductor Timothy Redmond has resigned as music director. The news was announced by the orchestra on August 24; Redmond is … » Read

LONDON--With the 2021 BBC Proms season drawing to a close, this August 30 concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall was a reminder of the rewardingly thoughtful programming that has typified this year’s festival. Not only was there a … » Read