https://cadenza.work/news/vienna-state-opera-opern-air-2026-free-burggarten-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-07T19:11:42.287Z Vienna Opened Its Season by Giving the Whole Garden Away. The State Opera's Free Night in the Burggarten Made Room for 12,000 People, Five Times What Its Own Auditorium Holds, and You Can Still Watch It. Vienna State Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Opern Air, Burggarten, Bogdan Roščić, Asmik Grigorian, Piotr Beczała, Juan Diego Flórez, Ludovic Tézier, Marco Armiliato https://cadenza.work/news/chicago-opera-theater-edelson-extension-2031-990-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-07T16:47:43.237Z Chicago Opera Theater Gave Its General Director Five More Years. Its Tax Filings Show What the Board Was Rewarding: a Loss Cut From $865,000 to $373,000 in Two Years, Read Against Eight Years of the Company's Own Numbers. Chicago Opera Theater, Lawrence Edelson, opera administration, Form 990, opera finance, Studebaker Theater, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Philip Glass, Robert Moran, Stacy Garrop https://cadenza.work/news/bso-musicians-three-year-agreement-music-director-search-2026 Cadenza en 2026-09-07T16:41:18.937Z The Musicians Wrote Themselves Into the Search. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Musicians Association, Chad Smith, Andris Nelsons, Todd Seeber, Barbara Hostetter, strike authorization, collective bargaining, music director search, Form 990 https://cadenza.work/news/san-francisco-opera-opening-night-strike-threat-2026 Cadenza en 2026-09-07T16:30:49.522Z The Orchestra Is Being Asked to Pay for the Deficit. Again. San Francisco Opera, AFM Local 6, Matthew Shilvock, Simon Boccanegra, orchestra contract, collective bargaining, opera finance, Form 990, War Memorial Opera House, labor https://cadenza.work/news/philopera-paris-opera-musicians-self-governed-orchestra Cadenza en 2026-09-07T15:52:18.485Z The Musicians Came Out of the Pit. On Sunday Night the Paris Opera's Players Gave the First Concert of an Orchestra They Run. Philopéra, Opéra national de Paris, Palais Garnier, Daniel Harding, self-governed orchestra, orchestra governance, Vienna Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Étienne Tavitian, Mahler https://cadenza.work/news/merola-opera-program-alumni-counted Cadenza en 2026-09-07T15:44:05.825Z We Counted Every Artist the Merola Opera Program Has Ever Taken: 1,438 People — and One in Seven Never Sang a Note. Merola Opera Program, San Francisco Opera, opera training, young artist programmes, répétiteur, opera coach, stage director, voice types, soprano, opera careers https://cadenza.work/news/gstaad-menuhin-festival-2026-70th-edition-27000-visitors-academies-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-07T15:28:03.814Z Gstaad Closed Its 70th Summer With 27,000 Listeners, 52 Days and 26 Stradivari and Guarneri Violins in One Church. The Part Nobody Prints Is the Four Academies, So Here Is Who Got In, What It Cost and When to Apply. Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Daniel Hope, Gstaad String Academy, Gstaad Conducting Academy, Jaap van Zweden, Thomas Hampson, András Schiff, David Garrett, festival attendance https://cadenza.work/news/young-artist-schemes-ycat-cag-choose-one Cadenza en 2026-09-07T15:19:32.192Z Two Schemes Share Their Artists Across the Atlantic. Only One of Them Forbids You to Apply to the Other. YCAT, Young Classical Artists Trust, Concert Artists Guild, Young Concert Artists, young artist schemes, artist management, solo career, Wigmore Hall, Kronberg Academy, application deadlines https://cadenza.work/news/mutter-foundation-aida-stucki-prize-2026-moncado-scholars-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-07T14:52:15.029Z A Prize Given Three Times in Fifteen Years. Anne-Sophie Mutter Handed the Aida Stucki Award to a 25-Year-Old Violinist in Lucerne, and Her Foundation's Own Page Shows What the Scholarship Behind It Has Produced. Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, Aida Stucki Prize, Elias David Moncado, Lucerne Festival, violin, scholarships, string players, Roman Patkoló, Daniel Müller-Schott, Texu Kim https://cadenza.work/news/instrument-banks-stradivari-loans-counted Cadenza en 2026-09-07T14:47:39.523Z A Tokyo Foundation Owns 22 Stradivari and Guarneri and Lends Them Out Gratis. We Counted Canada's Bank Too: 136 Loans to 89 Musicians Since 1987. Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesu, instrument loans, Sasakawa Music Foundation, Nippon Music Foundation, Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank, Paganini Quartet, Queen Elisabeth Competition, rare instruments, music careers https://cadenza.work/news/atlanta-symphony-five-new-musicians-2026-base-scale-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-07T14:37:09.061Z Atlanta Filled Two Principal Chairs and Three More in One Announcement. The Orchestra's Own Auditions Page Says What a Chair Pays, So Here Is the Ledger of Five Hires, the Contract Behind Them, and the Six Auditions Still to Come. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, orchestra auditions, principal trumpet, principal trombone, Elmer Churampi, Craig Mulcahy, base scale, ICSOM, orchestra salaries, Nathalie Stutzmann https://cadenza.work/news/summer-festival-costs-2027-who-pays-who-gets-paid Cadenza en 2026-09-07T13:59:28.057Z A Summer at Aspen Adds Up to $13,980. A Fellow Pays $325, the Same as Tanglewood. The Difference Is a Form You Can Only File on the Day You Apply. summer festivals, Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Brevard Music Center, Verbier Festival Orchestra, application fees, tuition, scholarships https://cadenza.work/news/toronto-symphony-407-etr-2-3-million-sponsorship-ledger-2026 Cadenza en 2026-09-07T13:54:20.881Z A Toll Road Is Paying the Toronto Symphony $2.3 Million to Play Across the GTA. Divided by Five Years and Set Against a $34 Million Ledger, Here Is What the Cheque the Orchestra Calls Its Largest Corporate Gift to Community Work Buys. Toronto Symphony Orchestra, 407 ETR, Symphony Where You Are, corporate sponsorship, Barrett Family Foundation, Roy Thomson Hall, Brampton, Markham, Scarborough, orchestra finance https://cadenza.work/news/classic-fm-plus-ad-free-price-ledger-2026 Cadenza en 2026-09-07T13:38:47.792Z Classic FM Puts a Price on Silence. £4.99 a Month for the Ad Breaks to Go Away, 4.3 Million Weekly Listeners to Sell It To, and What an Ad-Free Hour of Classical Radio Now Costs. Classic FM, Classic FM Plus, Global, Global Player, RAJAR, ad-free radio, BBC Radio 3, Rayo Premium, classical radio, UK radio https://cadenza.work/news/conservatory-deadlines-2027-entry-what-is-actually-due Cadenza en 2026-09-07T13:27:36.047Z Four Conservatories Close on 1 December. The Prescreening Recording Is Due the Same Day, Which Means the Real Deadline Is October. conservatory admissions, application deadlines, Juilliard, Curtis Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Yale School of Music, New England Conservatory, prescreening, application fees, music students https://cadenza.work/news/israeli-opera-2026-27-season-ettinger-weiss-engstroem-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-07T13:21:52.623Z Tel Aviv Keeps Its Conductor for Four More Years, Promotes Its Casting Director From Within, and Hires the Man Who Built Verbier. The Israeli Opera's Seven-Opera, 64-Performance Season, With the Prices. Israeli Opera, Dan Ettinger, Shirit Lee Weiss, Martin Engstroem, Tali Barash-Gottlieb, Tel Aviv, opera season 2026-27, Meitar Opera Studio, Verbier Festival, Peter Grimes https://cadenza.work/news/bach-choir-of-bethlehem-leipzig-2027-st-matthew-passion-300th-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-07T13:06:24.376Z Ninety Volunteers, One Market Square. The Choir That Gave America Its First B Minor Mass Will Sing the St Matthew Passion in Leipzig on Its 300th Birthday, and the Concert Is Free. Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Bachfest Leipzig 2027, St Matthew Passion, Christopher Jackson, Simon Halsey, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Bethlehem Bach Festival, volunteer choir, Bach Vocal Competition, Bach at Noon https://cadenza.work/news/svetlanov-competition-2026-birmingham-michal-oren-first-prize-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-07T12:39:18.995Z The Prize Nobody Won for Sixteen Years. In Birmingham, the Svetlanov Competition Gave Its First Prize for Only the Second Time in Six Editions, and the Orchestra Voted for the Same Conductor. Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition, Michal Oren, Mikhail Mering, Rui Miguel Marques, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducting competition, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Kazuki Yamada, Andris Poga https://cadenza.work/news/free-admission-map-world-class-music-costs-nothing Cadenza en 2026-09-07T12:33:18.321Z Free Admission, Wednesdays at One. The Map of World-Class Music That Costs Nothing, and How You Actually Get In. free concerts, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wigmore Hall, New World Symphony, Canadian Opera Company, BBC Proms, Les Prem's, access, ticket prices, young audiences https://cadenza.work/news/philopera-paris-opera-musicians-self-governing-orchestra-garnier-2026 Cadenza en 2026-09-07T12:21:49.174Z The Pit Walked Onto the Stage. 116 Musicians of the Paris Opéra Have Founded Their Own Orchestra, and It Played Its First Concert at the Garnier Ten Months Before the Stage Closes for Five Years. Philopéra, Opéra national de Paris, Palais Garnier, Daniel Harding, self-governing orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Alexander Neef, orchestra musicians https://cadenza.work/news/competition-deadlines-verified-autumn-2026 Cadenza en 2026-09-07T12:17:00.449Z Six Competition Deadlines Before Christmas, Checked at Source. Starting With the Ones Our Own Board Had Wrong. music competitions, competition deadlines, Leeds International Piano Competition, Cleveland International Piano Competition, Mirjam Helin, Queen Elisabeth Competition, Opera Crown, Verbier Festival Orchestra, application fees, prize funds