LONDON--The anglicized title gives it away: this is Wagner performed in English, as is the custom at London’s second opera house. On November 19 the company launched its new Ring cycle not with Das Rheingold but with its audience-pleasing … » Read

All eyes were focused on stage right at Davies Symphony Hall on Friday, November 12. As Michael Tilson Thomas entered, a full-throated cheer of the sort more likely to be heard at Oracle Park, where the San Francisco Giants play, rang out. The … » Read

A conductor who numbers Frank Zappa, Pierre Boulez, Leonard Bernstein, and Björk among his mentors is clearly one of eclectic tastes. As Kent Nagano turns 70, he tells Deutsche Welle , "If you think about it, my life is just a constant … » Read

The press preview for the Bowes Center for Performing Arts on Nov. 13 announced the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s (SFCOM) major expansion in the heart of the city’s Civic Center. “It’s a planting of the flag, and … » Read

David Rudge, the first conductor and music director in the history of the four-year-old Rock Hill (S.C.) Symphony Orchestra, has resigned, expressing concerns that the organization’s safety precautions for the pandemic were inadequate. … » Read

SEATTLE — An unexpectedly last-minute round of musical chairs reshuffled the lineup for one of the most unusual and original programs of the Seattle Symphony season. As a double harp concerto, Hannah Lash’s The Peril of Dreams , an … » Read

When Sarah Ruhl [pictured]wrote her play Eurydice in 2003, she could not have foreseen that nearly 20 years later it would appear as an opera on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. But on Nov. 23, her reimagining of the Orpheus myth, with music … » Read

The recently announced Gilmore 2022 Young Artist Awardees are pianists Janice Carissa and Clayton Stephenson. Carissa, who is Indonesian, is currently studying at the Curtis Institute of Music with Gary Graffman and Robert McDonald. She and … » Read

Michigan Opera Theater is on a roll. A bank roll, apparently, for it has just been given a $5 million grant from the William Davidson Foundation. The company’s largest single gift will go toward updating the century-old Detroit Opera House … » Read

A new production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, always big news, is even more noteworthy as the classical music world slowly emerges from the pandemic. On Nov. 19 the English National Opera (ENO) introduces director Richard Jones’s staging … » Read