Igor Levit launches his NO SILENCE label with “Resistance,” pairing Schönberg’s political “Ode to Napoleon” with Liszt’s ...

America’s Semiquincentennial gave the nation’s orchestras a rare civic opportunity. For one season they could have argued, in sound rather than press releases, that the United States produced a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio— Musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra voted unanimously on Thursday to authorize a strike if a new labor agreement is not reached by Sept. 23, raising the prospect of a work stoppage ...

ATLANTA, Georgia— The Atlanta Opera has selected four singers and two stage directors for its 2026–27 Studio Artist program, bringing six early-career artists to Atlanta for a season of performances, ...

In the operatic world, a simple formula has persisted now for more than two centuries. A “he” and a “she” meet, live a romance, and usually then go towards a horrible destiny. The settings may change, ...

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky— The Louisville Orchestra has appointed arts executive, composer and music publishing leader Jude Vaclavik as its new chief executive officer, placing a veteran of both the ...

Greensboro, North Carolina, in 2026 strikes your reviewer not as a snazzy city but as one of the remaining American urban areas where one can drive around more or less randomly and get the impression ...

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary this Fourth of July, Americans will sing far more than the official national anthem. Fireworks will light up skies from sea to shining sea, but ...

That burden might have crushed a lesser enterprise. Instead, Atlanta delivered an evening of remarkable theatrical assurance, one that succeeded not because it attempted to rival Bayreuth or the ...

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Ahead of its 36th season, Spivey Hall, located just south of Atlanta on the campus of Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia, recently announced a wide-ranging series of performances spanning ...

Co-presented by Houston’s premier new music collective Musiqa and the dynamic conductorless string orchestra Kinetic Ensemble, this weekend’s world premiere of Karim Al-Zand’s The Strangers’ Case ...