Between its designate and emeritus-for-life music directors, the Chicago Symphony has carved out a mostly want-to-be-there 2026-27 season. The former, Klaus Mäkelä, spends five subscription weeks on the podium plus an eight-city … » Read

Domingo Hindoyan will oversee his inaugural, 2026-27 season as music director of the LA Opera, conducting two of the five mainstage offerings at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. (Each mainstage opera has a six-performance run.) The schedule also … » Read

The 2026-27 season for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO), the seventh for Fabio Luisi as music director, features one-night appearances by Lang Lang, Yo-Yo Ma, organist Anna Lapwood, and Broadway star Idina Menzel; a first-time ever performance … » Read

The new symphony by Philip Glass, originally scheduled to have its first hearing with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in June, will instead premiere with a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on July 5 as part of a four-day … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — A high-stakes antitrust trial that could lead to the possible breakup of Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, got underway Tuesday in a case over whether the entertainment giant’s dominance of the concert … » Read

The Eastern Festival of Music (EFM), the reincarnated and refreshed version of the defunct   Eastern Music Festival (EMF) , is solidifying its place on the annual summer calendar by signing a new five-year contract with Gerard Schwarz, … » Read

After weeks of public speculation and mounting pressure, the San Francisco Ballet has cancelled its four performances at The Kennedy Center scheduled for May 27-31. The company had been slated to present Mere Mortals , the contemporary ballet … » Read

Its hardly a surprise that in the future (at least for three more very long years) the event known as “The Kennedy Center Honors” for 47 years will be billed as “The Trump Kennedy Center Honors.” The show may be a bit … » Read

Currently we live amid falsehoods, argues pianist Jonathan Biss. “The distinction between what is real and what merely looks real” has been erased, often in the service of profitability. Daily we are assaulted by distortions of … » Read

The Gran Teatre del Liceu will launch its first new Ring cycle in over ten years next season. The staging by Tobias Kratzer is a co-production with the Bayerische Staatsoper, where it launched in October of 2024 with Das Rheingold ; Die … » Read