BOSTON—The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2019/20 season with a plan to celebrate Music Director Andris Nelsons’s fifth anniversary at the orchestra’s helm. Highlights include Jonas Kaufmann returning to … » Read

The Edinburgh International Festival has announced its program for summer 2019, which includes the prestigious European premiere of John Adams’s new piano concerto, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? The Los Angeles Philharmonic, who … » Read

The San Antonio Symphony (SAS) has announced that Sebastian Lang-Lessing will step down as the company’s music director in 2020 after 10 tumultuous years at the orchestra’s helm. The German conductor, whose international commitments … » Read

BOCA RATON—A 100-year-old orchestral player has been making the news this week. Melvin Lazerick told Florida’s CBS12 News that he is no musician, but he does admit to being an integral part of the 70-piece Florida Intergenerational … » Read

GENEVA—The Aga Khan has announced the establishment of the Aga Khan Music Awards (AKMA), which come with an eye-watering US$500,000 in prizes. The initial award ceremony will be held at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon from the 29 th to … » Read

SAN DIEGO—American soprano Susan Narucki has been named as inaugural Director of Arts and Community Engagement at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Narucki, an influential advocate for new music who made her professional … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed portions of a lawsuit filed by former Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine against the company last year. Levine was the Met’s music or artistic director from 1976-2016, … » Read

Rider University’s controversial $40 million deal to sell Westminster Choir College to a Chinese company has hit a new hurdle according to opponents of the plan. The latest revelations suggest that the terms of the contract would allow … » Read

Carnegie Hall today announced that Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii will replace Murray Perahia who has regretfully withdrawn from his scheduled May 10 recital for medical reasons. Tsujii will perform works by Satie (the three Gymnopédies … » Read

Opera and surrealism make strange bedfellows, yet they have been known to cohabit, sometimes productively. Take Shostakovich’s The Nose , Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel and Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre , for instance. They may not be … » Read