Assuming FCC approval, Northeast Indiana Public Radio (NIPR) will sell 94.1-FM, WBNI, to Taylor University Broadcasting Inc. (TUBI) later this summer. The FM station currently broadcasts classical music.  TUBI owns a Christian music station; … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera says a positive $31 million on its latest tax return is mostly money pledged for future seasons that the company has not yet received. The company’s tax return, released Thursday, showed revenue fell by $13 million … » Read

The Louisiana Philharmonic, which self-defines as “the only full-time collaboratively governed and operated orchestra in the United States,” has named Philadelphia native Anwar Nasir [pictured] to be its next executive director. The … » Read

The variety of offerings in the just announced 2021–22 season for Cal Performances befits a major university known for its diversity of interests. Presentations include theater, dance, and music of all kinds, from chamber and orchestral … » Read

From July 2 thru August 13 the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) will present its summer series of concerts, featuring a free Fourth of July performance at Sigmund Stern Grove. Beginning on July 10, the SFS will perform five Saturday night concerts at … » Read

It’s been a month since Semperoper Dresden extended the contract of Peter Theile r, its current artistic director, through the end of 2023-24. Wednesday, as if to ensure that he would not stay beyond that time, it named Nora Schmid, 42, as … » Read

Soprano Julia Bullock, one of Musical America’s 2021 Artists/ Change Agents of the Year , has signed with London-based Askonas Holt for worldwide management. She was previously with Etude Arts. The epitome of the 21 st -century … » Read

LOS ANGELES – When James Conlon struck up the first chord from Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex June 6 in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, it came as a shock – a delicious shock. Technology is a wonderful thing, a lifesaver … » Read

AGMA members employed by the Metropolitan Opera have voted to ratify the four-year contract their 36-member negotiating committee came up with in May , after some adjustments for soloists. Initially, key singers said they would not vote for the … » Read

Flying halfway around the world to compete in the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World contest and then having to quarantine in your hotel room for ten days is a recipe for cabin fever. When the Kosovar soprano Elbenita Kajtazi Halimi is … » Read