Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – The day Russia invaded Ukraine, Brazilian dancer David Motta, then a leading soloist at the renowned Bolshoi ballet, knew he had to leave the country where he had lived half his life. It was an "obvious" decision -- … » Read

Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski, 22, is to be the next music and artistic director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO). He starts next season, succeeding Andris Poga, now at the artistic helm of Norway’s Stavanger Symphony … » Read

Classical music radio, like every other part of the music world, is in flux. Gone are the days when the on-air talent were all men possessed of deep baritone voices and a paternalistic commitment to teaching listeners about the day’s … » Read

For the first time since 2019, the League of American Orchestras’ conference will meet in person, from June 1-3, 2022 hosted by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which was last the site of the event in 2006. Nearly 1,000 orchestra … » Read

After a two-year long shutdown, the expenditure of more than $150mn ($103.5mn U.S.), and repeated delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Sydney Opera House is in the final stages of completing a much-needed renovation. The improved venue, … » Read

NEW YORK -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, all right, but not as Shakespeare imagined. No Norwegian prince arrives to seize the Danish throne. And to be or not to be is not the question. So it goes in the latest operatic adaptation of the … » Read

Exiled Ukrainian musicians have come together in Berlin to form “Mriya” (the Ukrainian word for dream), an orchestra of more than 30 players that presented its first concert on May 10. Funded in part by the aid organization … » Read

The Dallas Symphony-Fabio Luisi partnership, launched in 2020-21 but interrupted by Covid, has been progressing nicely, marked by several operas in concert and a continuing Read

There appears to be no stopping the appetite for acquisition, nor the funds to facilitate it, by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Its latest purchase, announced today, is Pentatone music, the Netherlands-based record label and home to the … » Read

On the occasion of Michael Tilson Thomas’s final concert as artistic director, the New World Symphony (NWS) this evening announced a $30 million endowment gift from the Arison Arts Foundation in honor of MTT. Going forward, the New World … » Read