San Francisco Opera will receive $5 million a year from Jensen and Lori Huang, co-chairs of the company’s Monkey King Honorary Committee. The gift is helping to underwrite the recent premiere of composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry … » Read

It took Peter Wollny more than three decades to determine that two unsigned manuscripts he discovered at the Royal Library of Belgium while in graduate school at Harvard were the work of a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach. “This is a … » Read

Executive orders by Donald Trump restricting the use of federal grant money for projects that promote diversity, equity and inclusion have led several organizations to decline grants from their state arts councils. States arts council funds come … » Read

Welsh baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen won the first prize at the biennial Paris Opera Competition on Nov. 20 at Marigny Theatre. As a member of the International Opera Studio at Zürich Opera, Mann appears this year in Rigoletto , Un ballo in … » Read

The Met Opera stage had a few extra supernumeraries Friday night, as hecklers landed on stage during Act 1 of the updated, bus-and-truck Carmen   to protest the late right-wing billionaire David Koch, one of Lincoln Center’s biggest … » Read

The preliminary results for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s (PSO) 2024–2025 fiscal year are full of good news. PSO President & CEO Melia Tourangeau and Board Chair Anthony Bucci reported a $34.6 million operating budget with a … » Read

At first glance the Galilee Chamber Orchestra seems an unlikely meeting of musical minds. Based in Nazareth, the ensemble includes 46 musicians drawn from students, faculty, and alumni at the Polyphony Conservatory as well as nearby … » Read

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has agreed to revive the $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR to operate a satellite distribution system for local public radio stations.  NPR  initiated litigation against CPB last … » Read

In early November 2025, the Concertgebouw announcement that it had opted to cancel its annual Chanukah concert generated significant controversy. Discussions begun last summer between the Chanukah Concert Foundation and the venue had failed to … » Read

The 2026 Hamburg International Music Festival will present 45 events over five weeks between May 1 to June 3. The festival’s theme—Between Apocalypse and New Beginnings—shapes a program of large-scale, full-length masterpieces: … » Read