Nicholas McGegan will retire as music director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale (PBO) at the end of the 2019-20 season. The British conductor will have served at the artistic helm of the PBO for 35 of its … » Read

Since its premiere in 1935, the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess has been a surefire means of breaking down racial barriers in the opera house. The estate’s insistence on an all-black cast, as will be the case when the English National … » Read

A series of seven concerts later this month will mark the culmination of a multi-year partnership between the North Carolina Symphony and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI). The concerts’ centerpiece will be Si Otsedoha ( … » Read

The demise of the original New York City Opera in the fall of 2013 is often blamed on a Series of Unfortunate Events in its final years, including the hiring of European impresario Gerard Mortier as general director by NYCO Board Chair Susan … » Read

As part of Macy’s marketing campaign “2018 is the year of the woman,” Buffalo Philharmonic Music Director JoAnn Falletta was featured last month as one of six “Remarkable Women” in a series of videos ads. "We're … » Read

LONDON—Like an errant child, English National Opera prompts love and exasperation in equal measure, with the latter emotion intensified by the former. For a decade or more, London’s second company, whose name is rarely uttered these … » Read

Pianist Igor Levit and conductor Antonello Manacorda [pictured] have joined the 22-member roster of Classic Concerts Management (CCM) for worldwide management. Managing them at CCM will be Kristin Schuster, also coming from IMG, where she was a … » Read

Maurice Ravel [pictured] was 53 when he wrote Bolero . For listeners driven to distraction by the iconic composition’s repetition of two main themes eight times, it may come as no surprise that about the same time he composed the work, his … » Read

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is following in the footsteps of its sister ensembles in St. Louis and Pittsburgh by converting a 1930s-era movie palace—the former Warner Grand Theater—into a 1,750-seat concert hall. A … » Read

PARIS--Charles Aznavour, the French crooner and actor whose performing career spanned eight decades and who endeared himself to fans around the world with his versatile tenor, lush lyrics and kinetic stage presence, has died. He was 94. One of … » Read