The visceral intensity of a competition performance leaves its mark on the audience as well as the contestants. You could sense the collective adrenaline skyrocketing during the final round of the Concours musical international de Montréal … » Read

Plácido Domingo is disputing allegations of sexual harassment against him, saying he has always behaved like a gentleman but that “gallant gestures are viewed differently nowadays.” The 78-year-old Spanish opera legend told the … » Read

As Music Director of both the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin may be a regular visitor—“an adopted New Yorker,” as he himself put it in brief remarks from the … » Read

Sir Jonathan Miller, writer, director, actor, has died at age 85 after a long battle with Alzheimers. Perhaps best known by the wider public as a member of iconic British stage revue Beyond the Fringe , he directed a large number of operas for … » Read

The Vienna State Opera is about to get a shock to its system: In early December, Olga Neuwirth’s operatic version of Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography premieres. The first opera written by a woman to be staged at the … » Read

CHICAGO—Back in town after their virtually annual visit to Carnegie Hall, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave its Nov. 21 subscription audience a program of Shakespeare-inspired vocal music, with Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena on the podium … » Read

Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Benditti, 24, is to be principal guest conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana as of 2020-21. She is currently the assistant conductor to Marc Albrecht and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Benditti first led … » Read

Teodor Currentzis and his musicAeterna chorus and orchestra made their belated North American debut last week with the Verdi Requiem. For more than a decade, the Greek-Russian conductor has won considerable acclaim in his homeland and throughout … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera has extended General Manager Peter Gelb’s tenure through 2026–27. He started in the job in 2006 and, by the time the new contract concludes, will be the third-longest-serving GM in the company’s 136-year … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—Across the street from San Francisco Symphony’s concert presentation of the first act of Die Walküre , a different opera about a pair of siblings on the run from danger appeared on the San Francisco Opera stage. … » Read