PARIS (AFP) -- Paris Opera has lost more than 12 million euros ($13.3 million) in a month-long strike by ballet dancers fighting to cling onto pension rights that date back to the "Sun King" Louis XIV. The opera -- one of the oldest and most … » Read

Classical music statisticians will be happy to note that, based on events listed on the London-based Bachtrack for the last year, the annual stats for "busiest," translated by Bachtrack as "top," are in. Among other not-so-trivial news is that, … » Read

Emanuel Borok, concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2010, died on January 5 after battling lung cancer. He was 75. Borok came to the DSO from the Boston Symphony after 11 years as associate concertmaster and concertmaster … » Read

Peter Mattei, Musical America’s  2020 Vocalist of the Year , is winning rave reviews for his current portrayal of Wozzeck in Alban Berg’s modernist masterpiece at the Metropolitan Opera. Heard more often in roles such as Don … » Read

The number of applicants to the 18 th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition topped 500 for the first time in the almost 100-year history of the event. The number has been growing steadily over the last decade alone, from 353 in 2010. … » Read

As if to pay amends for its history as America’s largest slave-trading port, the City of Charleston will be the site of the world premiere of Omar , a new opera based on the 1831 autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, an enslaved Muslim African … » Read

Madani Younis’s recent appointment as chief executive producer at the Shed, and resignation from an apparently lesser post at London's Southbank Center, goes to the heart of the U.K.’s failure to achieve real diversity in the arts, … » Read

Beijing’s municipal government has announced an initiative to grow its music and creative industries into a $17.2b economic juggernaut by 2025. Released on Dec. 31, the plan calls for promoting the growth of the city’s digital music … » Read

Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts has appointed an interim director in the wake of Sarah Curran’s departure in November. She is Jennifer Calienes, a Massachusetts-based arts consultant whose recent clients include Urban Bush … » Read

Dutch violinist and pedagogue Jaap Schröder died on Tuesday December 31 at the age of 94. Together with Gustav Leonardt, Frans Brüggen, and Anner Bÿlsma, he founded the Netherlands Quartet in 1960. In 1975 he formed the Quartetto … » Read