For fans of 20 th - and 21 st -century music, this year’s Ojai Music Festival is irresistible. Put together by Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen with festival Artistic and Executive Ara Guzelimian, the 80 th iteration of this historic … » Read

The displeasure surrounding the announcement that the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) will not renew Andris Nelsons’s contract as music director is not subsiding. At the Thursday, March 19 performance, the first since the news was … » Read

Three new releases highlight the diversity of orchestral and chamber music coming out of the U.S. right now. First up, Sarah Kirkland Snider ’s Forward Into Light , a distinctive and immersive album by one of America’s most individual … » Read

Travelers passing through the Pittsburgh International Airport between now and April 30 can see life-size holograms of members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performing. Created by Joe Zeff Design, timed to coincide with the influx of … » Read

The San Antonio Philharmonic—which cancelled all remaining concerts last month and whose future viability, given its past, is questionable—is seeking more than $1 million in damages from the San Antonio Scottish Rite Library and … » Read

CHICAGO— Hello, Dolly was right: Sometimes, it only takes a moment. Director Matthew Ozawa’s widely traveled production of Madama Butterfly is far from perfect in its arrival at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where Ozawa is the chief … » Read

In a sign of its ongoing struggles, the English National Opera has appointed yet another interim CEO, the third attempt to secure administrative leadership in as many years. He is Paul Reeve, MBE, arriving in April to succeed J enny Mollica, in … » Read

On March 23 eight associations representing preservationists and architects filed a law suit in federal district court against the Trump administration to halt the “renovation” of The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing … » Read

The four 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant winners, each a recipient of $25,000, were recorded live in performance last night for an upcoming broadcast on New York’s all-classical WQXR. The awards, to U.S. citizens or residents, are suggested … » Read

The decision by Moody's Ratings to cut the long-term rating of the Metropolitan Opera Association to Caa1 from B3, taken in response to the company’s structural deficit and heavy endowment withdrawals, comes as no surprise. It follows … » Read