The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2020-21 season responds to the current political climate in its reflection and celebration of the many different cultures and voices of America. It does so through specific programmatic themes, such as the … » Read

Marin Alsop has a new line on her CV. Today, the Ravinia Festival announces her as its chief conductor and curator, a new, two-year position that augments her current post as curator of programs. The festival has had no music director since James … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Symphony Orchestra has canceled two concerts in Beijing and one in Shanghai next month following China’s virus outbreak. Music Director Gianandrea Noseda had been scheduled to lead performances in … » Read

BOSTON--Choreographer/dancer Caleb Teicher and pianist/composer Conrad Tao opened a short run of their More Forever, on January 31 in the Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theater at New England Conservatory. Part of Boston’s Celebrity Series, … » Read

Raff Wilson is to succeed Elena Dubinets as VP for artistic planning at the Seattle Symphony in April. Wilson served for seven years in a similar capacity for the Hong Kong Philharmonic, from 2010-17, and is credited with bringing Jaap van Zweden … » Read

The conductors of many of America’s leading orchestras are today expected to possess “broad horizons” that focus as much on contemporary music as on traditional repertory. But, as critic Alex Ross argues in The New Yorker , … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera has found its new Dutchman in bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin, who takes the role over from Bryn Terfel in the company’s new, François Girard staging of Der Fliegende Holländer . Terfel is undergoing … » Read

LOS ANGELES—The legend of Orpheus and Eurydice has been prime fodder for composers for centuries, from Monteverdi to Stravinsky and beyond. Yet for reasons that no one has been able to definitively explain, the fetish for all things … » Read

Alexei Ratmansky is known as a highly musical choreographer, celebrated for his reconstructions of 19th-century classics and explorations of Eastern European folk-inspired styles. So the announcement that his newest work for New York City Ballet … » Read

Sam Jackson, senior managing editor of Global, Europe’s largest radio company, has been appointed Executive VP Global Classics and Jazz for Universal Music Group (UMG). Jackson, whose current portfolio includes Classic FM, which … » Read