MILAN—At a press conference this week, La Scala announced that it was ramping up its international touring in 2019-20, with 60 performances scheduled in eight nations. Planned are company debuts in India and Saudi Arabia ( La traviata … » Read

The Symphony Orchestra of India launched its first UK tour earlier this week in London, and so far, so good. In his Guardian review, Andrew Clements declared it “already hugely competent.” The orchestra was only formed in 2006, after … » Read

For its first presentation in nearly three decades of the Porgy and Bess , which opens the season on Sept. 23, the Met will hire an all-black chorus, just as it did the first time it mounted the Gershwins’ opera, in 1985. At the time, there … » Read

Two orchestras have recently hired new publicists in key positions. Joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra as senior publicist is Matthew Erikson [pictured].He comes to Boston after serving as publications editor for the San Francisco Opera; … » Read

Daniel Hyde [pictured], who succeeded the late John Scott as director of music at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York, and is now headed back to the U.K. to be director of music at King’s College , Cambridge, has signed with the … » Read

The New York City Opera’s (NYCO) world premiere of Stonewall continues the company’s Pride Initiative of offering a LGBTQ-focused work during Gay Pride Month each June. The opera, with music by Iain Bell, libretto by Pulitzer … » Read

The calendar for the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019-20 season looks quite different from those in the past, thanks to the introduction of Sunday matinees, a first in the company’s history. A total of 16 are scheduled for next season, with … » Read

Mary Ann Feldman, program annotator for the Minnesota Orchestra for 33 years and all-round classical music advocate/cheer leader, died on Monday of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. She was 85 and had been in an assisted-living … » Read

The MacDowell Colony has chosen Philip Himberg as its next executive director, succeeding Cheryl Young, who is retiring after 30 years . Himberg, who starts June 1, comes to the 118-year-old artists’ colony from the Sundance Institute, … » Read

When she isn’t touring, recording, or practicing—alone or with her seven-year-old prodigy daughter—violinist Rachel Barton Pine is busy finding and disseminating classical music by Black composers. Over the last 15 years, she … » Read