Lebanon, Ill.-based soprano Christine Brewer may have blown out her knee, but her voice is just fine — and she was once again the go-to replacement for an ailing soprano in a big sing, this time with the Santa Fe…

As previously noted, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will hold a radiothon before and during the performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the “Choral,” this Saturday, May 9, starting at 4 p.m. on KFUO (99.1 FM) and ending about six…

The Bach Society of St. Louis in “Jesu, My Joy,” 6:30 p.m. at St. Francis Xavier “College” Roman Catholic Church, 3628 Lindell Boulevard. $20 to $35; 314-652-2224 or www.bachsociety.org.

Society seems to be getting back to basics these days. The Bach…

A St. Louis native, Andrew Chester, was among those selected - by online audition - for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Chester studied tuba with Gary Lipsutz of the St. Louis Brass Band, and was a member of the St. Louis…

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra president Fred Bronstein has another new initiative, and it’s one that will benefit everyone within earshot of KFUO-FM (99.1) by radio or by Internet: broadcasts of the SLSO, both live and archival performances.

They’ll start at 7:30…

Class act: The group of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra musicians who performed in Zankel Hall on Friday night did so after playing a concert in Ann Arbor, Michigan the night before, spending weary hours attempting to get to New York,…

NEW YORK – I planned my trip to New York around the happy confluence of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s annual concerts at Carnegie Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings, and soprano Christine Brewer’s scheduled Bruennhilde in “Die Walkuere” at…

NEW YORK - There is a popular misconception that opera always involves heavy-duty stories and emotions, that it’s always serious, that someone — or several someones — must always perish by the end.

Not so.

As Exhibit A, consider Donizetti’s sweet, tuneful,…

St. Louis-based soprano Christine Brewer has suffered severe damage to her right knee, and has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” Brewer was to have sung the crucial role of the Valkyrie Brünnhilde in two complete cycles,…

St. Louis-based dramatic soprano Christine Brewer was already scheduled to do her first fully-staged Brünnhildes in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at New York’s Metropolitan Opera; now she’s added another cycle to that wash.

Brewer was set to sing the role…