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Classical Music Power Couples

From starting their own charities to writing operas together, discover some of classical music’s most prolific couples!

Associated PressMarch 4, 2022

Spanish theatre drops Bolshoi’s ballet show over Ukraine war

Associated PressMarch 3, 2022

Anna Netrebko out of Met Opera over her support of Putin

Associated PressMarch 2, 2022

Tilson Thomas resigns from New World Symphony, lessens work

Ella Jenkins — gray haired woman stands with the ocean to her back

Ella Jenkins at 100: A Timeline

Adela SkowronskiAugust 4, 2023

For more than 60 years, the "First Lady of Children's Folk Music" has used music to inspire and teach children around the world.

Marin Alsop, Jude Kelly Reflect on Leadership in Panel Led by WFMT-WTTW CEO Sandra Cordova Micek

Keegan MorrisJuly 27, 2023

Marin Alsop reflects that “courage is important in leadership, but accountability is, too.”

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Verdi’s ‘Don Carlos’ arrives at Met Opera in original French

Associated PressMarch 1, 2022

The version is largely based on the 1867 rehearsals and Paris Opéra premiere, including long-lost sections rediscovered in the late 1960s by David Rosen and Andrew Porter.

Management drops conductor Valery Gergiev over Putin ties

Associated PressFebruary 28, 2022

Gergiev's former manager called him "the greatest conductor alive and an extraordinary human being with a profound sense of decency" but said that in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was "impossible" to defend his interests.

Munich, Rotterdam may fire Gergiev, London drops Bolshoi

Associated PressFebruary 25, 2022

Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter has threatened to remove Valery Gergiev as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic unless Gergiev publicly says by Monday that he does not support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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