Let’s get the gripe out of the way first. The New York Philharmonic’s season-closing “Music of Conscience” series is a very fine idea, but what Brahms’s Tragic Overture and Mozart’s C Minor Piano Concerto have … » Read

Utah Symphony Associate Conductor Conner Gray Covington [pictured] has been given the additional position of principal conductor of the Deer Valley Music Festival, summer home of the Utah Symphony, for the next two seasons. Summer of 2019 sees … » Read

It must be a young composer’s dream to be programmed by John Adams as one of the musicians whose creative force he sees as “the future of American music.” In the case of Gabriella Smith’s Carrot Revolution , featured on an … » Read

Eva Kleinitz, artistic director of the Opéra national du Rhin, died on May 30 at the age of 47. The cause was cancer. In his blog, German critic Manuel Brug writes, “Eva Kleinitz’s enthusiasm for great artists knew no bounds … » Read

Perhaps it is a coincidence that the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Managing Director Jan Raes has decided to resign in the wake of Daniele Gatti’s firing one year ago as music director. The orchestra announced today that Raes will … » Read

Without comment or input from its musicians, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has announced that it will change its season from 52 to 40 weeks. As such, all summer 2019 concerts have been cancelled.The final program will be the live-with-film … » Read

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UK—Among the U.K.’s ever-growing manifest of country-house opera companies, there are two that stand out. Glyndebourne remains the pack leader, by some distance, but the summer rival that has that house’s … » Read

The Eighth Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition concluded earlier in the week in Helsinki, FI, an international quinquennial competition that awards a total of €173,000 spread across nine prizes, four to men, four to women, and one … » Read

Prominent Mali vocalist Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté has had to cancel her participation in the upcoming Kronos Festival 2019 because her visa was subject to “extreme vetting” by the U.S. State Department, therefore holding … » Read

American Ballet Theatre’s annual Metropolitan Opera House season, now in its third week, is celebrating the tenth anniversary of Alexei Ratmansky’s tenure as the company’s artist in residence. His 16th ballet for ABT, The … » Read