Pierre Audi, innovative stage director and international impresario, died on May 2 while in Beijing discussing future productions. Born in Beirut in 1957 and raised there and in Paris, Audi studied at the University of Oxford. He first came to … » Read

After a two-year search the Delaware Symphony Orchestra has tapped Argentine-Italian conductor Michelle Di Russo to be its next music director. She succeeds David Amado, who stepped down in 2023 after 20 years in the job. He is now titled … » Read

Maestro Arts has added two conductors to its roster. Pablo González [pictured] was most recently principal conductor and artistic adviser for Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra (RTVE). While known for his command of the … » Read

J azz at Lincoln Center has appointed Tatyana Gershkovich to be its new CFO, succeeding Susan Gordon, who retired last year. Gershkovich is the recent VP and CFO of American Express’s Global Services Group & Enterprise Functions and … » Read

Wagnerian voices take time to mature, and even when they do, the lead roles tend to be monopolized by a handful of established stars. It was therefore both a surprise and a pleasure earlier this year to encounter a fully formed Brünnhilde … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra is updating its conducting team next season, as Associate Conductor Daniel Reith ends his three-year term and is succeeded by Taichi Fukumura as assistant conductor , while James Feddeck becomes principal conductor and … » Read

In 1958, Mildred and Richard Loving, a Black woman and a White man, went to Washington, D.C. to get married and then returned to their home north of Richmond. Their act of union broke two Virginia laws, one forbidding out-of-state travel for … » Read

Marin Alsop, in London preparing the world premiere of the orchestral version of Laura Karpman’s opera Balls about Billie Jean King’s 1973 tennis victory over Bobby Riggs, tells The Times (London) that she believes women conductors … » Read

Under its new Executive Director and CEO Gary Ginstling, the Houston Symphony has tapped one of Ginstling’s former colleagues as its new chief development officer. Arriving from June after two years in a similar post at the Cape Town (SA) … » Read

The Wallace Foundation, a major funder of the arts ($40 million over the last six years), has named Jean S. Desravines to succeed Will Miller as president as of September. Miller, in the job 14 years, announced last June that he would be leaving … » Read