Caroline Shaw won the Pulitzer Prize in Music Composition in 2013, the youngest person to do so. The winning work, Partita, written for the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, of which she is a member, displays a plethora of musical styles, ranging … » Read

On Sunday night Hildur Gudnadóttir won an Oscar for best score, for Todd Phillips’ Oscar-nominated film Joker . The Icelandic composer had already won the Golden Globe, Critic’s Circle, and BAFTA awards for the work. … » Read

Plans announced by Radio New Zealand (RNZ) to move Concert —its signature classical music program—to an AM frequency and downgrade its content has stirred up a hornet’s nest of protest. Opera legend Dame Kiri Te Kanawa labelled … » Read

Come July 10, the San Diego Symphony will have a new summer outdoor concert venue—the $45m Shell located on the bayfront in the downtown Embarcadero Marina Park South. The new facility includes a 13,015-sq.-ft. outdoor stage covered by a … » Read

The Hong Kong Arts Festival , one of the events in which the Boston Symphony Orchestra was scheduled to perform before calling off its tour of East Asia, has finally announced its cancellation, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. Still … » Read

With its scheming politicos, sexual shenanigans, and an air of jaded amorality, Handel’s Agrippina is the perfect opera to hold a mirror up to our own times. It’s not surprising then that Sir David McVicar chose a contemporary … » Read

MILAN--Alexander Pereira's two-decade tenure as Intendant of Zurich Opera ended eight years ago, but his legacy appears to be alive and kicking. The Austrian manager gave Cecilia Bartoli a number of early breaks at the company (she celebrated 30 … » Read

Cellist Gabriel Martins [pictured], a graduate student at the New England Conservatory, clinched first prize at the 23rd annual Sphinx Competition , which concluded in Detroit on Saturday. He takes home $50,000 plus a number of solo engagements. … » Read

Robert Trevino, music director of the Basque National Orchestra (BNO), had been mulling over a radical idea for years. What would happen, he wondered, if he were to present a concert at which none of the music played was announced beforehand? … » Read

Mirella Freni, an Italian soprano whose uncommon elegance and intensity combined with a sumptuous voice and intelligence to enthrall audiences for a half-century, has died at age 84. Freni died Sunday at her home in Modena, Italy, from a … » Read