Just to ensure major confusion among Baltimorians, the Baltimore Symphony musicians yesterday announced a free concert for the afternoon of September 14—not to be confused with the official Baltimore Symphony season opener (or … » Read

Vuvu Mpofu, a 28-year-old South African soprano, appears poised to take the opera world by storm. “She will be a singer we will be one day be proud to have worked with,” Stephen Langridge, artistic director of Glyndebourne, tells The … » Read

When the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) bids farewell to Michael Tilson Thomas, its music director for 25 years, at the end of the 2019-2020 season, it will also be saying goodbye to Joshua Robison. The couple, married in 2014, have been partners … » Read

I first heard María Dueñas in July at the Colmar International Music Festival in France. A thin pale girl in white, her straight black hair gathered in a ponytail, she looked frail and far younger than her 16 years as she stood … » Read

American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton is on a roll. In 2013 she won both top prizes at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition (only the second singer ever to do so) and since has appeared on many of the world’s top opera stages. As … » Read

Brandon Ridenour [pictured] is returning to the Canadian brass to succeed Christopher Coletti, whom he replaced ten years ago in the group. It was actually Ridenour who suggested Coletti replace him, so the do-si-do is now completed. Ridenour, a … » Read

The Portland (OR) Opera is abandoning its experiment of moving the season to the summer months and going back to its longtime fall to spring schedule. Sue Dixon, external affairs chief who has been serving as interim since general director … » Read

On Aug. 31 Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler [pictured], president of the Salzburg Festival, weighed in on the controversy surrounding a German music critic’s [Manuel Brug of Die Welt ] “body-shaming" of Kathryn Lewek , who recently assayed the … » Read

Alexander Steinbeis, longtime managing director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, has announced his intention to leave in August 2020. He will have been in the job, which involves artistic planning as well as overseeing administrative … » Read

That “body shaming” is not new to the opera world doesn’t make it any less objectionable when it occurs. The latest instance has embroiled the American coloratura soprano Kathryn Lewek [pictured] in a twitter spat with Manuel … » Read