Hitting print too late to be included in Sunday’s roundup of other critics’ opinions of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis season just ended was Heidi Waleson’s review for The Wall Street Journal.

Published in the weekend edition of July…

The results are in from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’s Artists-in-Training competition, held Sunday, April 20.

According to OTSL’s director of education, Allison Felter, the winners are:

Monsanto Award ($4,000) Collins O’Dwyer, Jennings HS senior
Huber Award ($1750) Ghislaine Angier,…

Allison Felter is one of the hardest-working, most self-effacing and all-around fun people in the arts in St. Louis. Wherever you turn in the community, you’re likely to find Allison, cooperating with other organizations, encouraging kids, and helping her colleagues.…

It’s the first real breath of spring: Single tickets go on sale at 9:30 a.m.March 1 at Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

OTSL has a Byzantine price structure; for these purposes, it’s safe to say that you’ll pay between $25…

At last: the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has hired a new principal percussionist.

The admirable John Kasica has filled as acting principal for several seasons, in part as a way to save money during the orchestra’s time of financial crunch.…

Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson, 23, a native of St. Louis and a graduate of Webster University, was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2008 National Council Auditions. She won $15,000 and a major boost to her singing career.

Johnson, currently a…

Designer André Barbe, one-half (with director Renaud Doucet) of the Montreal-based creative team that gave Opera Theatre of St. Louis its delightful production of André Grétry’s Zémire et Azor (aka Beauty and the Beast) and is now working on The…

STLtoday.com has new blog software, and it should make the site easier to use for Post-Dispatch bloggers — once we figure out all of its fine points, at least. (I ask readers of Classical Music/Culture to bear with me during…

You probably didn’t read it here first — but you definitely won’t see it here last: STLToday’s blogs are getting new software.

The good news is that we’ll be able to offer some helpful new features. The bad news is…

Lorin Maazel was never seen as much more than a caretaker music director for the New York Philharmonic, but it’s turned into a seven-year run. The Phil announced its 2008-09 season on Thursday. Maazel’s last hurrah will come on June…