An exploration of the orchestra conductor role history and artistic power behind shaping live symphonic music.

SoNA's mainstage season concludes March 7 with "Behind the Mask: Romeo and Juliet" with guest conductor Tamara Dworetz.

Prince Ali is coming into town and bringing his finest performers, singers, dancers, and all (not sure about the 75 golden camels or 53 purple peacocks though). While Aladdin sings and dances his way ...

The Hollywood Bowl was packed Sunday night, as it had reportedly been Friday and Saturday, for the first time that John Williams and Gustavo Dudamel shared a program in the amphitheater. Many in the ...

In fact, for Cincinnati Ballet, it’s “Nutcracker” time for the 51st year. (That’s 52 if you count the 2020 pandemic version, an hourlong TV broadcast.) There are other long-running holiday traditions ...

Sir Andrew Davis, the widely beloved music director and principal conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago for some 21 years and one of the great operatic figures of his generation, died Saturday of ...

Since Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner began redraping Grandfather Richard’s operas in modern scenic dress seven years ago, première audiences at the Bayreuth Festival have usually focused more on the ...

Leonard Bernstein, the acclaimed director and dynamo conductor, is back in the limelight – cast by the recent Netflix biographical film “Maestro,” directed by and starring Bradley Cooper. Immortalized ...

Semyon Bychkov will succeed Gustavo Dudamel as music director of the Paris Opera starting in August 2028, the company’s ...