Opera E-ducation: Met Opera Hosts Free Student Streams, Artist Q&As

Find out how to register for a free digital Q&A with Renée Fleming, offered as part of the Met's free student streams program.

Finding Hope in Handel

Little known fact: Handel ranked 'Theodora' — not 'Messiah' — as his best oratorio. You'll see why in a rapturous performance by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.

‘I am here with my musicians’: Maestro Muti joins striking CSO musicians

Usually caught in a neither-nor position straddling the artistic and administrative halves of the organizations, music directors have historically stayed out of labor disputes in major orchestras.

La Scala under fire for proposed funding from Saudi Arabia

Italy's premier opera house is under fire over a proposal to grant a board seat to Saudi Arabia's culture minister with the promise of $16.8 million in new funding

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Musicians take to the picket line

Picketing began yesterday on the sidewalks outside the entrances to Symphony Center in the Loop, as the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra marched off their first full day on strike.