The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and the Los Angeles Philharmonic recently announced plans for the third Piatigorsky International Cello Festival. Scheduled for March 13 to 22, 2020, the quadrennial, 42-event … » Read

Highlights of the Cleveland Orchestra 2019-20 season include Lulu in concert and works by Oded Zehavi, Olga Neuwirth, John Adams, Thomas Ades, Louis Andriessen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Florence Price, and Oliver Knussen. Of course, Mahler, Brahms, … » Read

Update, March 14, 3 pm:  All CSOA-presented concerts through March 17 have been cancelled due to the musicians strike. Musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, among the three highest paid symphony orchestra musicians in the country … » Read

MILAN--The Arena Opera Festival in Verona has announced a star-studded 2019 season that opens with La Traviata, featuring Anna Netrebko in her festival debut and a new production by 96-year-old Franco Zeffirelli. The ambitious program for the … » Read

Last week, an article in The New York Times bore the title, Thousands of Millionaires Are About to Eat San Francisco Alive . “They want cars," it stated. "They want to open new restaurants. They want to throw bigger parties. And they want … » Read

Patricia K. Beggs, among the most highly regarded officials in the opera business, is to retire as general director of the Cincinnati Opera at the end of its next, centenary season. She has been affiliated with the company for 35 years, initially … » Read

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s (DSO) Classical Roots Celebration and gala dinner on March 9 raised $351,000 to support the performance, commissioning, and recording of works by African-American composers and to feature African-American … » Read

HAMBURG—He's under house arrest in Moscow without a phone or the internet, yet Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov's new opera is set to premiere in Germany on Sunday. A modern take on Verdi's Nabucco , the work at the Hamburg Opera deals … » Read

Chicago’s MacArthur Foundation, home of the “genius grant,” has a new president—John Palfrey. An educator, author, and scholar with a focus on digital technology, Palfrey, 46, will succeed Julia Stasch, in the job since … » Read

It’s always gratifying to see a good turnout for new music, and if the line snaking through security at David Geffen Hall on March 6 was anything to go by, Zhao Lin’s Concerto for Pipa, Cello and Orchestra was a highly anticipated … » Read