James Levine, music director of both the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has withdrawn from the rest of the summer Tanglewood Festival in order to have a kidney removed. Here’s the press release:

BSO MUSIC DIRECTOR JAMES LEVINE…

DENVER - It’s like Old Home Week in Colorado this week, as a reported 3,500 arts administrators and others from assorted arts groups - the League of American Orchestras, Opera America, Chorus America, theater and dance groups and (oh, yes)…

When I was a girl in the Kansas City suburb of Prairie Village, Kansas, we studied state history while tiptoeing lightly around two of the most interesting characters: Carrie Nation and John Brown.

Nation, who took her tomahawk into saloons…

No, tenor Juan Diego Florez didn’t do an encore to “Ah, mes amis,” despite a long and lusty accolade from the beyond-appreciative crowd. But he did just about everything else in a manner calculated to please the far-flung audiences of…

The flowers are blooming, and so are the audition announcements. This year’s concert season may be ending, but the area’s musical organizations are already gearing up for next fall. Here are three choruses and an orchestra:

The St. Louis Symphony…

This just in: Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, the “Symphony of a Thousand,” will be broadcast live from Quebec on Saturday night. If you’re not going to hear Haydn’s “Creation” by the SLSO that night, this might be fun listening.

(”Colisée…

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra got a cold weekend to visit New York, but their playing warmed things up at Carnegie Hall.

After Friday night’s performance of Messiaen’s “Turangalila-Symphonie,” the players practically glowed. In the lobby of the Parker Meridien,…

It’s a big night for conductor Leonard Slatkin, composer Joan Tower and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, whose “Tower: Made in America” won three Grammy awards, including “Best Classical Album.” It’s a big night for Naxos, their label, as well.

This…

I visited Chicago to see John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” at Lyric Opera of Chicago — but while there, I got a welcome chance to catch “La Traviata” as well.

“Traviata” is one of the most frequently performed operas in the…

Members of the American Guild of Musical Artists — AGMA — at Lyric Opera of Chicago  voted on Wednesday to authorize a strike if an accord is not reached by  Saturday. That’s the day of the company’s opening night performance…