In their desire to attract younger audiences with free or moderately priced tickets, are opera houses turning their backs on older devotees? Dame Esther Rantzen [pictured], a British television personality and founder of The Silver Line charity … » Read

Ellen Reid has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera p r i s m , premiered by the Los Angeles Opera in its "Off Grand" series last year and revisted in New York at the Prototype Festival last January. In his review , Clive Paget … » Read

Bridge Records has pledged to record everything George Crumb ever composed. As Crumb’s 90th birthday year was honored on Sunday with a world premiere, in his presence, it’s apparent that Bridge will be busy for a long time.  A … » Read

BERLIN — Deutsche Oper presented a pair of rarely seen operas in rotation recently: Alexander Zemlinsky’s unfairly neglected Der Zwerg (“The Dwarf”) and Richard Wagner’s grandiose early breakthrough, Rienzi — a … » Read

MANCHESTER—There is no argument that Jerome Robbins’ Tony Award-winning choreography for West Side Story has stood the test of time. His slick moves for the Jets and Sharks have been the full story since he opened the show on Broadway … » Read

SAN DIEGO—For most of its 50-year existence, the La Jolla Music Society (LJMS) has had as its principal performing venue the Sherwood Auditorium, a 492-seat space owned by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. By common consent, the … » Read

Yo-Yo Ma brought his touring Bach Project to Laredo, TX, on Saturday, performing on the US-Mexico border to make the point that music can “reconnect us to our common humanity” and that it was important to "build bridges, not walls." A … » Read

Try as it might, the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) couldn’t convince me that there was a coherent theme running through its April 11 concert in Zankel Hall. The drawcard was the New York premiere of a substantial work from Du Yun, one … » Read

Five years ago, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma was tens of thousands of euros in debt, on the verge of bankruptcy, and plagued by frequent labor disputes. Since that low point, the company has undergone a near miraculous turnaround. Between … » Read

Opéra de Montréal and Tech3Lab, an applied research company, are collaborating on a study to determine the differences in audience reactions to experiencing a live opera performance and seeing an HD broadcast of the same opera in a … » Read