Despite last season’s seven-week strike, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has put a positive spin on it’s the results of its latest fiscal year.  A report issued at the orchestra’s annual meeting on Oct. 23 shows total … » Read

The JACK Quartet is nothing if not eclectic. With a repertoire that ranges from Julia Wolfe and Helmut Lachenmann to Caroline Shaw and John Zorn, the group has a reputation for diverse, stimulating, and fearless programming that saw it named … » Read

In honor of its 100 th anniversary, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will pull out all the stops this weekend. It has gathered its last three maestros, each of whom will lead a specialty work. Tonight, Zubin Mehta, music director from 1962-78, will … » Read

Jasper Parrott [pictured], founding partner of the large (72 employees), London-based agency that bears his name, is the subject of a recent interview in VAN. Among the topics covered are his fears for London orchestras and their touring … » Read

LONDON—Anticipation skyrocketed at the prospect of Harrison Birtwistle’s magnum opus finally returning to the London Coliseum where David Freeman’s original production for ENO, by all accounts clear and austere, served it so … » Read

Richard Brunel, director of the Centre Dramatique national de Valence, is to be the new general director of the Opéra National de Lyon, effective September 1, 2021. The 47-year-old theater director has been with the Centre Dramatique since … » Read

Its one down, and two to go at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando. On Tuesday, after months of sometimes acrimonious negotiations , the Orlando Ballet and the Center announced they had reached a multi-year rental agreement … » Read

JoAnn Falletta will celebrate her 20 th anniversary as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic by staying another five years—through the 2025-26 season. The first woman to become music director of a major-budget-category orchestra, she … » Read

For nearly two decades, the conventional wisdom in the classical music world held that in order to avoid gender bias, prospective orchestra members needed to audition behind a screen. Based on four decades of data from eight leading orchestras, … » Read

American Ballet Theatre's fall season at Lincoln Center’s Koch Theater offers a chance to see the company in mixed-repertoire programs—a pleasant alternative to the story ballets it brings to the Met Opera in spring. October 16 marked … » Read