American violinist Isaac Stern, performing with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Herbert Blomstedt, drew enthusiastic cheers Wednesday evening at the Theatre Musical de Paris.
Opera singer Shirley Verrett's Rome debut as Lady Macbeth ended in boos and jeers after she was forced to quit in the first act because of a throat ailment.
New York City Opera will perform a two-week engagement in Taiwan in December, its first overseas tour since 1958.
Former General Manager Sandra A.
Houston's flagging civic pride will get a boost this weekend when the city's $72-million opera house opens.
Some 7,000 people crowded into the Vatican on Saturday night to hear a rare performance by the reclusive Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
Anthony Davis, composer of the opera "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X," has completed a new work in which he uses computers to explore the musical qualities of speech.
The Fresno Philharmonic finally has a permanent music director and conductor.
Spoleto Festival USA, the 17-day music and arts extravaganza in Charleston, S.C., opened this
Opera companies around the globe this year marked the 90th birthday of the late Rosa Ponselle, but the diva's lavish Maryland home is closing because the foundation that runs it is running out of money.
The first Glenn Gould Prize, which carries a cash award of $50,000 (Canadian), will go to composer R.
The Music Center's board of governors voted unanimously Monday to accept the $50-million gift by Lillian B.
Former Metropolitan Opera general manager Sir Rudolf Bing, whose $900,000 in assets were frozen in the United States when a judge ruled him incompetent, has moved with his wife to a luxury motel in England after being offered three months' free lodging and meals.
Chinese classical music fans responded to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's first concert in Beijing with roars of "bravo!"
Real estate attorney Frederick M.
Nipper, the dog listening to "his master's voice," has been called home to RCA Records to resume his job as the company's logo after being sent away in the early 1970s, according to the record company's new owner, Bertelsmann.
British violinist Nigel Kennedy, who's touring the United States (he was booked for a weekend stint with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington), signed an unusual record contract with Angel/EMI Records.
Former Metropolitan Opera head Sir Rudolf Bing and his new wife--out of sight since he was ruled incompetent to handle his affairs last month--have surfaced on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, according to the British protectorate's police commissioner.
Arriving from Milan with just 10 minutes to spare, American soprano Lynne Strow Piccolo covered for an ailing Margaret Price on Monday night at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in London--and the role was no less than the torturous title role of Bellini's "Norma."
Leontyne Price has given her name to a scholarship fund established by the Jackson, Miss., Symphony Orchestra Assn., it was announced Wednesday night before a recital in Jackson by the Mississippi-born soprano.