The Princeton (NJ) Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and The Princeton Festival are merging. Approved by both boards on June 10, the newly created organization, PSO, Inc., will operate under the leadership of the PSO’s Music Director Rossen Milanov … » Read

PARIS (AP) — South African opera star Pretty Yende said she was detained by French authorities, strip searched and held in a dark room at Paris’s main airport after arriving this week for a starring role at the Theatre des … » Read

LOS ANGELES – So there will be music in Walt Disney Concert Hall this fall and winter after all, for the Los Angeles Philharmonic revealed plans for its 2021-2022 season on Tuesday. The announcement came about four months later than … » Read

The Chicago Opera Theater flexes its muscle next season as Chicago’s distinctively “other” opera company. Showing creative chic, it has come up with a concert version of Carmen starring Jamie Barton in the title role and … » Read

Michele Mariotti has been named as successor to Daniele Gatti as music director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. The 42-year-old Italian conductor, currently music director at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, assumes his new post November 2022 … » Read

The Chicago Symphony, which plans to unveil its 2021-22 season next month, has announced its first artist in residence; she is Hilary Hahn, a violinist of worldwide fame, of course, but also one of the most generous artist-contributors to the … » Read

Louisa Proske, co-founder and co-artistic director of Heartbeat Opera, will step down to become associate artistic director of Oper Halle; she will, at the same time stay connected to the bold, eight-year-old New York based company with the title … » Read

American soprano Gianna Rolandi died at her home in Chicago on June 20, 2021. She was 68. Born in New York City in 1952, she grew up in South Carolina and first studied violin and voice at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. She studied … » Read

We will be updating this list weekly. 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 … » Read

This year’s commemorations received a boost when President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law. The event dates back to the end of the Civil War when, on June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union … » Read