Liverpool loses a second manager

From a correspondent: I am a retired full time chorister who worked at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from the mid-1970s until recently. When I started, I made $125/week for 13 weeks and about $4/hr […]

Message received overnight: Esa-Pekka Salonen concluded his tenure as SF Symphony Music Director on a transcendent note, conducting Mahler’s Second Symphony with soprano Heidi Stober, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, & the SF Symphony & Chorus. The […]

The Metropolitan Opera has agreed to play three weeks each winter in Saudi Arabia in a deal said to be worth $100 million a year. Without it, the company was going to the wall, drawing […]