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

Jonathon Heyward, known as the “Converse Conductor,” became the youngest and the first Black music conductor and director for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in its 107-year existence. Now, the ...

It isn’t often you get to be the music director for a work of theater that, well, isn’t a musical. “I’ve never done anything like this,” says Justin Craig, the New York City-based music director ...

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 ...

Every week I’m interviewing fascinating people in our community, nation and around the world. Mack Wilberg has served as ...

Alan Gilbert has renewed his contract as Music Director of the Royal Swedish Opera through the end of 2029, with the option ...

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 ...