After a five-month absence, Leonard Slatkin returned to the podium in Detroit’s Fisher Music Center on Oct. 5 for the opening of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s (DSO) 2018-2019 season. Forced to cut short his final season as the … » Read

In a recent column for The Stage that displays an unusual, wholly laudable degree of humility, the Olivier-winning conductor Mark Wigglesworth argues that conductors and theater directors share a great deal of common ground. … » Read

Site-specific art can offer the most immersive of experiences, as anyone will know who has attended Punchdrunk theater company’s Sleep No More , set in a block of Chelsea warehouses (reclaimed and reimagined as the fictional McKittrick … » Read

SALT LAKE CITY — The famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir will be singing the same tune but under a new name. The choir was renamed Friday to strip out the word Mormon in a move aimed at ending shorthand names for the religion that have been used … » Read

An application to use the instantly recognizable sails of the Sydney Opera House as a projection screen to advertise an upcoming horse race has set off a war of words stoked by a right-wing radio shock jock. On Oct. 6 Clover Moore, the lord mayor … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil) kicked off its centennial season on Oct. 4 with a celebration that owed more to the Beach Boys than to such hoary classical greats as Bach, Beethoven, or Brahms. Declaring that “art does not have … » Read

BARCELONA — Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, has died. She was 85. She died early Saturday at Hospital San Pau in … » Read

Violinist Leila Josefowicz, who has made a specialty of championing new and especially thorny music, has been awarded the 2018 Avery Fisher Prize, among the most prestigious and lucrative—$100,000—in the field. The award was announced … » Read

Composer/conductor Matthew Aucoin [pictured] has been chosen as a 2018 MacArthur Fellow in the area of music performance and composition. Aucoin at age 28 has written four operas, four orchestral works, and a variety of other pieces, all of which … » Read

On July 2, Boston Symphony Orchestra principal flutist Elizabeth Rowe sued her employers , claiming discrimination on the basis of gender. July 1 marked the first day that the Massachusetts Equal Pay Law; Rowe’s suit was filed at 10 a.m. … » Read