(Ageist) Nationalism Hits La Scala

The general manager of Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala on Tuesday bade a bittersweet farewell to the theater during the presentation of 2024-25 season, saying, “I would have been happy to continue.'

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Esteemed Critic Praises Esteemed Pianist—and Her Wardrobe

Anyone who thinks classical music concerts are stuffy homages to outdated traditions has never seen (and heard) Yuja Wang perform.

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Buffalo Catholic Diocese Cancels Gay Men's Chorus Concert

Claiming that the group’s “values are inconsistent with Catholic teaching,” the Diocese of Buffalo recently canceled a concert by the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus scheduled for June 9.

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Nodding to ACE, English Touring Opera Exits London

In Autumn 2024, the English Touring Opera is relocating from its current home base in London to a new hub in Sheffield.

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Dayton Phil Taps Music Director

Keitaro Harada, music and artistic director of the Savannah (GA) and “permanent conductor” of the Tokyo Symphony, will add the Dayton (OH) Philharmonic to his CV, with the title of music and artistic director.

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Key Kronos Executive to Exit

Janet Cowperthwaite, who has spent 43 years helping to make the Kronos Quartet one of the music world’s most admired and innovative foursomes, has announced that she will step down next October.

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SF Opera Prepares for the Tragedies of Innocence

An uneasy orchestral prelude sets the mood: muffled percussion, brooding woodwinds, anguished strings. The curtain rises and the first voices we hear are of two young men cowering in the shadows.

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'Discovered' Loeffler Octet Is Vintage Americana

“I have to say, you guys are very brave, showing up to hear a piece that hasn’t been heard in 127 years,” clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson greeted an audience in Gilder Lehrman Hall.

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Hilary Hahn Heads to the Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Music has chosen the three-time Grammy Award winning violinist Hilary Hahn as visiting professor for a 12-month period beginning in September 2024.

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Hugues Gall Dies at 84

Hugues Randolph Gall, longtime general director of the Paris Opera, died on May 25 at age 84. Born in Honfleur, Germany, he began his career working for several government ministries, before joining the Paris Opera in 1973.

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Heggie's Opera About Nazism Is Alarmingly Timely

Before It All Goes Dark, the newest opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, commissioned by the Music of Remembrance organization, is short.

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New Opera Takes on the Underbelly of Opioid Marketing

The Galloping Cure, a new opera under development by John Berry, former artistic director of English National Opera, promises a degree of timeliness absent from most modern works.

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Juilliard Chooses Resident Graduate String Quartet

The Juilliard School has selected the Katarina String Quartet as its next graduate resident string quartet, with its two-year residency beginning in September and extending through spring 2026.

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Head Phones, Ear Buds, and Gen Deaf

We live in an increasingly noisy world, a state of existence exacerbated by our embrace of earbuds and headphones. Last year over half a billion pairs of headphones were sold.

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2024 Beverly Sills Award Announced

Leah Hawkins has been awarded the Met Opera's 2024, $50,000 Beverly Sills Award.

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