Jessica Munch-Dittmar  [pictured] is the new executive director of the Fayetteville (NC) Symphony Orchestra (FSO), arriving at the same time as Music Director Stefan Sanders has announced his intention to exit at the end of 2025-26, after … » Read

A case of the summer flu caused tenor Piotr Beczala to withdraw from the concluding performance of Lohengrin at Bayreuth on Aug. 9 as well as his appearance in Carmen at Verona five days later. Klaus Florian Vogt filled the title role at … » Read

The Portland (OR) Opera has promoted composer/conductor/bass-baritone Damien Geter from artistic advisor and interim music director to music director. The Chicago-based Geter is composer-in-residence at the Richmond Symphony; his most recent … » Read

Conductor Killian Farrell will join the Staatstheater Nürnberg as general music director beginning with the 2027/28 season. Among his first duties will be to guide the ensemble’s 2028 relocation to its new venue—the Kongresshalle … » Read

At the moment the drama underway at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples is political, not musical (though it is certainly operatic). At issue is the leadership of the storied company. Stephane Lissner, who had been the general director of the Paris … » Read

The Washington, D.C.-based Cathedral Choral Society (CCS) has extended its arrangement with Music Director Steven Fox through the 2028-29 season. He has been in the job since 2018, one of only two to hold the title since the group’s … » Read

Morton Herbert Meyerson, whose quiet philanthropy helped transform the Dallas Symphony Orchestra into one of the nation’s elite ensembles, died after a long battle with cancer at his home in Dallas on Aug. 5. He was 87. Meyerson’s … » Read

Shannon Kelly has been promoted to president & CEO of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, succeeding Andrea F. Warren , in the job under three years. Kelly has been the VSO’s VP of development since January 2023 and is said to have rebuilt … » Read

Lidiya Yankovskaya, who stepped down as music director of the Chicago Opera Theater (COT) at the end of 2023, is pulling up stakes and relocating to London. Her reasons are twofold. The 39-year-old mother of two, who has lived in the Windy City … » Read

As of October 15, New Music USA will have a new CEO in Vanessa Rose—not to be confused with her immediate predecessor, Vanessa Reed, who announced in February that she would exit to become CEO of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society. … » Read