"Dido and Aeneas" is Virgil’s story of Queen Dido of Carthage, who falls in love with the Trojan hero Aeneas but is abandoned ...

Paolo Bortolameolli conducts the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice in Salonen's LA Variations, Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto no 1 in A minor, Op 33 with soloist Mar ...

Today marks the 100th birthday of the late Pierre Boulez (March 26, 1925–January 5, 2016), the New York Philharmonic's Music Director from 1971–77. In commemoration of his centennial, the New York ...

Hungarian pianist András Schiff and German violinist Christian Tetzlaff cancel upcoming U.S. performances in reaction to ...

The orchestra will welcome such guest artists violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianists Emanuel Ax, Seong-Jin ...

Twenty-three guest conductors will lead the San Francisco Symphony in place of departing music director Esa-Pekka Salonen ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen, the esteemed outgoing music director of the San Francisco Symphony, isn’t named on the orchestra’s 2025-26 season schedule — a striking absence that underscores a shift from the ...

There’s a great gaping absence in the San Francisco Symphony’s 2025-26 season: Esa-Pekka Salonen. The outgoing music director — who was supposed to carry on a four-decade tradition of excellence at ...

Often, concerts begin with an overture (a natural choice). Last night’s ended with one: the Leonore Overture No. 3, one of ...