Next fall the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory will present a year-end "Exploring Russia" music festival in Shanghai as part of a three-year partnership. Chinese pianist Kong Xiangdong will serve as … » Read

Starla Breshears will join the Francisco Symphony as a section cellist at the beginning of the 2026–27?season. Currently studying at the Colburn School, she was previously a scholarship student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music … » Read

With Anna Netrebko on deck as the tormented Amelia, the recent Paris Opera revival of Gilbert Deflo’s decade-old production of Verdi’s  Un Ballo in Maschera  at the Bastille was bound to be a red-hot … » Read

The much-valued annual presentation of a Handel opera in Carnegie Hall by Harry Bicket and the English Concert on occasion has stretched the genre, but only a touch, by performing an English “dramatic oratorio” as they have come to be … » Read

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is a well-known advocate for the long overlooked Black female composer Florence Price. As music and artistic director of The Philadelphia Orchestra, he has featured her works in concert and in 2022 led the … » Read

Tabita Berglund is to be chief conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic beginning with the 2027-28 season. She succeeds Edward Gardner, who exited after nine years in 2024 and now holds the title of Honorary Conductor. Berglund has signed a four-year … » Read

As of the 2026-27 season, Alina Ibragimova will be an artistic partner with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s (SPCO). The Russian-born violinist debuted with the SPCO in February 2024, leading performances of Beethoven’s Violin … » Read

If Verdi makes your world go round, Riccardo Muti’s your man. Whether at the opera house or in strict concert form (no semi-staged funny business for this maestro), his investigations into Verdi’s many worlds are touchstone events. … » Read

CHICAGO—Of the many details in Johann Sebastian Bach’s obituary, the acknowledgment that the composer wrote three more passions than the surviving St. Matthew and St. John is among the most tantalizing. Initially catalogued among … » Read

Ivan Hewett, the classical music critic for The Daily Telegraph , doesn’t pull his punches when claiming that Spotify treats classical music lovers like “total morons.” And he marshals persuasive evidence with excerpts from … » Read