Members of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra have elected the ensemble’s first non-Finnish chief conductor: As of fall 2021, British maestro Nicholas Collon is to succeed Hannu Lintu, in the job since 2013. The orchestra, whose origins … » Read

As if to complement the Dallas Opera’s annual Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors, the Dallas Symphony has announced the schedule for its inaugural Women in Classical Music Symposium, scheduled for November 6-9, 2019 and … » Read

The Chicago Symphony  musicians’ strike lasted seven weeks, but in fact negotiations had been ongoing for months, the contract having expired last September. Federal negotiators got involved during the strike, but even they … » Read

Michael Tilson Thomas’s stint as one of this year’s Carnegie Hall Perspectives artists has already given New Yorkers the chance to hear this irrepressible and eclectic conductor at the helm of the Vienna Philharmonic. May 1 was the … » Read

By 2025 as many as one million people in the U.K. may suffer from dementia. While there is no cure for the condition, evidence suggests that music may reduce symptoms such as depression and agitation. A study by Sebastian Crutch, a … » Read

Since the end of the Cultural Revolution over 40 years ago, interest in western classical music has been booming in China. At least 40 million children reportedly now play the piano, producing an expanding market for recorded music as well as … » Read

Mark Richter, director of the Alamo City Opera, in Austin, TX, died last weekend at the age of 51. "He was the one that many, many years ago started the resurgence of the new opera here,” Kirstin Roach, the company’s music director, … » Read

Osmo Vänskä will  leave as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in 2022, but before he does, he will take up the post of music director of the Seoul Philharmonic as of next January. He succeeds Chung Myung-whun, who quit in … » Read

“What time’s the next elevator?” Karen Cargill (mimicking tenor Leo Slezak) might well have asked after she missed her entrance as Erda in Das Rheingold on Monday night (April 29) at the Metropolitan Opera. Just when we thought, … » Read

NEW YORK — Her character suffers through one of the most harrowing deathbed scenes in all of opera. But that doesn't faze Karita Mattila, who's looking forward to performing it as "quite an adventure." The Finnish soprano, noted for her … » Read