LOS ANGELES – While Broadway musicals are not altogether unfamiliar territory for Los Angeles Opera—one of its earliest productions was Oklahoma!— neither are they regularly seen in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. But when you … » Read

Opera singer Plácido Domingo on Tuesday spoke of his joy over a forthcoming Moscow concert as the famed Spanish tenor faces multiple sexual harassment claims. Giving a press conference at Russia's TASS state news agency, Domingo … » Read

Celebrating its centennial next summer, the Salzburg Festival has been chosen Festival of the Year for the 2020 Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts. Only once before has an institution, rather than an artist, been … » Read

With their latest gift of $14.6 million—being announced from the stage tonight—Joan and Sanford I. Weill and their family foundation will hit a total of $100 million in cumulative gifts to Carnegie Hall. Sanford Weill, retired chief … » Read

Students at the Frederick Bremer School in Walthamstow, East London, are proving the value of music in enhancing academic and social growth. Upon entering their seventh year, each student receives a violin, viola, or flute and free music lessons … » Read

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s cruise through its centennial year suddenly hit some rough road as summer turned to fall. Simon Woods, the Phil’s CEO for only 20 months, abruptly departed Sep. 16 for reasons, … » Read

MILAN (AP) — Even as his U.S. career seemingly winds down amid accusations of sexual harassment, opera legend Plácido Domingo remains on the bill of a host of European opera houses. The 78-year-old singer who rose to stardom as … » Read

Glory to Hong Kong, the work of an anonymous composer known only as “Thomas,” has rapidly won acceptance as the national anthem for those demonstrating on behalf of the city’s civic freedoms. “I planned for an anthem . . . … » Read

ASCAP has announced its annual Deems Taylor Awards—now known officially as the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards for print, broadcast, media, and liner notes. Heidi Waleson’s book Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death … » Read

CHICAGO—There’s something surprisingly luxurious about seeing Verdi’s Luisa Miller live. For one thing, it’s rarely performed. Lyric Opera of Chicago, which unveiled a splendidly sung production Saturday night at the Lyric … » Read