So much for Riccardo Muti’s two-week residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, of which he is music director. Today, he tested positive for Covid-19, ruling out his scheduled performance with the CSO on Tuesday, April 5, now cancelled, … » Read

Last night’s Grammy awards constituted a victory for women in the classical recording industry. All but two of the ten recordings that won were dominated by women, either as composers, performers, producers, or engineers. It appears, in one … » Read

Bayersiches Staatsballet Director Igor Zelensky has resigned for, officially, “private family reasons.” He is the former artistic director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater from 2006 until 2015, and the Stanislavski and … » Read

Within the space of a week in late February, Peter Gelb went from a visit to Moscow to see the dress rehearsal of his company’s co-production of Wagner’s Lohengrin with the Bolshoi to watching a young Ukrainian bass-baritone sing his … » Read

Joseph Kalichstein, an Israeli-American pianist described by one contemporary as “a musician’s musician, always thoughtful and imaginative,” died at age 76 on March 31.The cause was pancreatic cancer.  Adept as a … » Read

The League of American Orchestras has appointed Caen Thomason-Redus as its VP of inclusion and learning, one of several leadership shifts at the organization. Thomason-Redus is the senior director of community & learning at the Detroit … » Read

Anna Netrebko’s career in her homeland is not dead—at least not with the all-powerful Mariinsky Theater. The theater has officially confirmed that Netrebko is participating in its annual Stars of the White Nights festival , which … » Read

The  Moscow Times reports that Russia’s Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater has announced the cancellation of Anna Netrebko’s concert scheduled for June 2. The company cited her back-pedaling statement on March … » Read

LONDON--Back in Beethoven or Mozart’s day, your average concert would comprise a composer’s very latest works, in other words there would be little that wasn’t new music. These days it’s rare to feature more than a single … » Read

Since becoming artistic director of the newly renamed Detroit Opera (aka Michigan Opera Theater) in 2020, Yuval Sharon has crafted cutting edge productions in a parking garage, an abandoned theater, and other unlikely venues. Now, as the … » Read