classical music

The President of the Kennedy Center has offered his artistic credentials in a podcast with a New York Post columnist. ‘I played, like very short periods of time, the flute,’ he said. ‘Do you believe […]

We hear that Wasfi Kani at Grange Park Opera has engaged the orchestra of English National Opera for her forthcoming Ring cycle, which opens next summer with Rheingold. This is a brilliant swoop, employing an […]

The President and his wife Melania, accompanied by the V-P couple, were gretted with mixed boos and cheers last night on turning up for the musical Les Miserables. Nothing much more to report, except this […]

From the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: When Principal Trumpet Esteban Batallán Cons makes his solo debut with the CSO at Symphony Center this week, it will be the culmination of a lifelong dream. “It makes me […]

The death has been announced of the prolific set designer Pantelis Dessyllas, one of the busiest in Vienna for the past half century. Pantelis was 89. His Fledermaus is showing tonight at the Volksoper and […]

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Another Canadian orchestra has plumped for a Canadian conductor. Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra has installed Simon Rivard, starting this month. Rivard, 35, is from Montreal and he’s also MD of Edmonton Opera and the  Orchestre de […]

Artistic planning chief Cristina Rocca has written to subscribers, telling them the CSO MusicNOW has been suspended next season. ‘The series will be paused to take time to imagine new possibilities for connecting Chicago audience […]