Opening night at the Metropolitan Opera is always a big occasion. For Will Liverman, who sings Charles, the lead role in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones on Sept. 27, the evening holds promise of being a career-defining moment. … » Read

Andrea (Andi) Lamoreaux is exiting Chicago’s classical radio station WFMT after 52 years with the organization. She leaves October 1, some 20 years after being named music director. She started in 1969 as a music librarian, fresh from … » Read

It is heartbreaking, though hardly surprising, that Zohra, the all-female orchestra once based in Kabul, is a thing of the past. Once a symbol of the new freedom—for music, for women, for self-expression—the 40-member ensemble has no … » Read

The New England Conservatory of Music has added pianists Jonathan Biss and Marc-André Hamelin to its piano faculty with one-year appointments to begin with the start of the 2021 academic year. "Jonathan and Marc-André are two of the … » Read

Two major piano competitions concluded over the weekend: the Clara Haskil International, in Vevey, Switzerland, and the International Ferruccio Busoni, in Bolonzo, Italy. The finals for both occurred last Friday. Yumeka Nakagawa, 19, of Germany, … » Read

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