Rather than awarding its annual $50,000 Beverly Sills Artist Award to a single singer, the Metropolitan Opera has divided the purse among five whom it deems “extraordinarily gifted singers with rising Met careers.” Each will get … » Read

The Verbier Festival, having been among the first to cancel its 2020 edition due to the pandemic, can now go on record as the first festival to announce a completely live 2021 season, much of which will be streamed. Audiences will be limited to … » Read

Nearly two decades separate John Adams’s Harmonielehre , one of the composer’s most popular pieces, from My Father Knew Charles Ives , one of his inexplicably less well-known works. The two appear hand in hand on an admirable new disc … » Read

Primary Wave Music, an independent music company in New York, has paid an estimated $30mn for the assets of Sun Records, one of rock ’n’ roll’s earliest and most iconic labels. Sam Phillips, the company’s founder, released … » Read

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has named Hanif Abdurraqib as guest curator at large. The Ohio-born poet, essayist, and cultural critic will work closely with BAM programming teams to curate musical engagements and conceive long-term … » Read

MILAN--La Scala is late to the streaming game compared with many Italian opera houses. But recently it announced plans to stream one staged opera production, a ballet, and a concert each month, distributed live via the Raiplay platform and the … » Read

It was becoming a bit of a cliff hanger. The Dallas Opera announced in December that it would launch its postponed 2020-21 season on March 5, with one premiere (Jody Talbot’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ), three abridged productions … » Read

Germany-based Schott Music Group, which includes a vast range of publishers from Universal Edition to Bärenreiter and Gershwin Music, has moved its U.S. rental and licensing business—the European American Music Distributors … » Read

In the world of opera, making the leap from performer to administrator is difficult under the best of circumstances. For a Black man, it might appear all but impossible. Russell Thomas, a 44-year-old tenor who has sung on the stages of, among … » Read

On Jan. 26 a brief illness claimed the life of Eva Coutaz, who was key to the success of the Harmonia Mundi label for over 40 years. “Her passing leaves an immense void,” her colleagues wrote in a memorial statement. “Her … » Read