The explosive growth of TikTok and YouTube—users of the former increased from three million to 14 million between September 2019 and March 2021—has generated an enormous demand for music from content creators for those platforms. But … » Read

Lincoln Center will distribute a $20 million gift from Lynne and Richard Pasculano among four of its constituents to defray the many millions of losses from the pandemic and to encourage cross collaborations. A New York Times article mentions the … » Read

Italian conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti, best remembered for his near-decade-long tenure as music and artistic director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, has died at age 75 in Monte Carlo. Born in Rome in 1945, he studied at the Accademia … » Read

On July 28, Riccardo Muti turned 80 and, just before, gave an interview to the Corriere della Sera . In his popular blog Gramilano , Milan-based journalist Graham Spicer has translated excerpts in which the maestro speaks from his throne of deep … » Read

Honoring his near 15-year tenure as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), the Royal Philharmonic Society had bestowed on Vladimir Jurowski its Gold Medal, whose past recipients include Brahms, Benjamin Britten, Leonard … » Read

Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is currently six hours ahead. U.S. Central … » Read

Mark Ball will become artistic director of the Southbank Center, the UK’s largest arts center, in January 2022. Currently the creative director at Manchester International Festival, Ball will be responsible for developing an expansive … » Read

Upon first blush, this summer looked like the moment when the concert business was going to come roaring back from the depths of the 14-month depression resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. After a shaky start, the disbursement of billions of … » Read

Having duly established its cutting-edge bona fides, the Long Beach Opera (LBO) has unveiled what it accurately describes as “an audacious 2022 season,” its first under James Darrah,  named artistic director in February. At the … » Read

Opera Parallèle, San Francisco’s vital source of new and contemporary opera since 2007, has a new senior executive team, organized under and announced by its Founder and Artistic Director Nicole Paiemen t, who recently added General … » Read