From her inaugural performances in 2022 and fall 2023, Elim Chan and the San Franciso Symphony appear to have connected with a jolt, with Chronicle critic Joshua Kosman declaring the 5- feet-1-inch conductor “the real deal.” Today, … » Read

LONDON—While celebrations of American culture go on all around the world, it’s perhaps surprising that composer Brent Michael Davids’s Requiem for America should receive its May 17 world premiere not in a major U.S. city but in … » Read

Heartbeat Opera, known for its streamlined, freewheeling mountings of familiar works, has swerved somewhat into esoteric territory in its current production of Vanessa . Although the 1958 Samuel Barber/Gian Carlo Menotti opera has lately been … » Read

After more than a decade of international research led by academics at the University of Sydney, Mima’amakim ( Out of the Depths ) has been translated and published in English for the first time. This rare collection of songs by Jewish … » Read

Valery Saul is to be the Nashville Symphony’s associate conductor for the next three years as of September. She succeeds Nathan Aspinwall.   Saul, whose tenure coincides with Leonard Slatkin’s as music director , will work with … » Read

The prospect of an agreement with the Kingdon of Saudi Arabia that would provide the Metropolitan Opera with as much as $200 million for performing at the new opera house in Riyadh “was not a difficult decision,” Met General Manager … » Read

MANCHESTER, UK—The second word of its name had long been a bone of contention until Arts Council England obliged English National Opera to live up to its brand and get out of London. After faltering first steps towards Manchester in 2025, … » Read

Pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane seems not quite ready to give up on San Antonio. In 2024 he signed a three-year contract with the upstart San Antonio Philharmonic , successor to the San Antonio Symphony, which went out of business in 2022 … » Read

With no slight intended to composer Laura Kaminsky, librettist Elaine Sexton, or director Kevin Newbury, the Biggest Name associated with American Opera Project’s latest reveal is its set designer. The titular location of The Post Office, … » Read

The Sarasota Orchestra’s new music center, projected to cost more than $400 million and having already attracted more than $60 million of support , has received an additional $11.7 million from an anonymous donor. The pending completion of … » Read