New Zealand-born conductor Gemma New has renewed her contract as music director of the Hamilton (Ontario) Philharmonic through the 2023-24 season. She will have been at the orchestra’s helm for eight years. “It has been a true joy to … » Read

Katy Clark will leave her post as president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January to take an as yet announced position elsewhere. She came to the job in 2015, succeeding Karen Brooks Hopkins after 16 years. Much as she has appreciated her … » Read

Plácido Domingo yesterday afternoon sent an official notice of cancellation to the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo, where he was to sing the title role in the composer’s Belisario , a "lyrical tragedy" loosely based on a famous … » Read

Southern California’s car culture is offering salvation (of a sort) for regional opera companies. In late October and early November, the San Diego Opera offered four nights of La Bohème at an area drive-in theater. Next up is the … » Read

On Dec. 8, HarrisonParrott will inaugurate Virtual Circle, a live-streaming and digital content platform. The partnership with eMusic Live will offer audiences “concert look and feel” performances as well as workshops/masterclasses, … » Read

CHICAGO--For the second consecutive year, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association’s budget has been hit by an unexpected tsunami of cancelled concerts. In spring 2019, it was a seven-week CSO musicians’ strike . In spring 2020 it … » Read

The Dallas Symphony, currently hosting its second annual Women in Classical Music symposium, was among the first to return to its home base for live concerts, albeit socially distanced onstage and with a limited audience in the Meyerson Symphony … » Read

As technology stretches our ability to replicate almost everything, separating the real from the fake is increasingly difficult. It is now possible to use artificial intelligence (A.I.) to compose music as well as to generate sounds … » Read

When the San Francisco Opera isn’t streaming some of its past, classic performances (Samuel Ramey as Boris Godunov this week, Željko Lucic as Rigoletto next), it’s projecting them on the giant screen at the Fort Mason Drive-in, where … » Read

Unlike larger symphony orchestras nationwide, the Columbus (OH) Symphony—numbering 45 full-time musicians and 14 staff members—has dodged the pay cuts so prevalent in the classical music world. “We set a goal early… to … » Read