Was Leonard Bernstein’s 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a masterpiece or a flop? Written for the 1976 Bicentennial and sponsored by Coca-Cola to the tune of $900,000, the show closed on Broadway after only seven performances. At the time, the … » Read

George Manahan will step down as music director of the American Composers Orchestra at the expiration of his contract, on July 1, 2021. He arrived in the post in 2010 as only the third of ACO's music directors; his predecessors were founding ACO … » Read

For the second consecutive year, the Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Music Competition has been canceled due to the pandemic. Normally, the final rounds of the event are held in November in Paris, after preliminaries in a number of … » Read

A collection of letters and other documents revealing the tumultuous personal life of Enrico Caruso is being sold in London. “These letters tell a gripping story,” says Thomas Venning, head of Books and Manuscripts at … » Read

Liz Cass, executive director of the nonprofit Armstrong Community Music School in Austin, Texas, tells USA Today that social media is playing a huge role in elevating the profile of young musicians. At the moment, she is following the careers of … » 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

Nicolas Namoradze was “in retreat”—as he puts it—for several years before his 2018 triumph at the Honens International Piano Competition. “I hadn’t done any competitions and I wasn’t concertizing actively … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera’s operating revenue dropped by $25 million to $120 million in the fiscal year ending July 31, a season shortened due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, but the company avoided an operating loss … » Read

In some ways, The Fall of the House of Usher , the Philip Glass chamber opera drawn from Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic horror story, is the perfect blank canvas for the Boston Lyric Opera’s wild and woolly virtual production, which opened … » Read

The association of North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents (NAPAMA) has announced two honorees for 2020. Hollis Ashby, artistic and executive director of the  Williams Center for the Arts at Lafayette College, PA, is the recipient … » Read