After 36 years, Jay Fishman plans to retire this month as artistic director and conductor of the Minnesota Sinfonia. His departure will also mark the end of the ensemble itself. The annual budget ranges between $400,000 and $700,000, an amount … » Read

Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who turns 80 in December, continues to confound medical experts who told him he had 12 to 18 months to live when he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, three years ago. Within the … » Read

Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Royce Vavrek is the new artistic director for the Toronto-based Against the Grain Theater (AtG). He succeeds Joel Ivany, the founder of the Toronto-based opera company who left in the summer of 2023 to head up … » Read

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the disgraced former artistic director of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras, has elected not to go quietly into the night. Following his physical assault on a singer in August of 2023 , Gardiner took a year away from … » Read

What’s in a title? Maybe not as much as what’s in a name. Joshua Bell has been announced as the inaugural principal guest conductor of the New Jersey Symphony as of 2025-26 for four seasons. For that lofty title, he is obligated to … » Read

Violinist Randall Goosby will be the 2025 MAC (Multi Cultural Awareness Council) Music Innovator at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO). He succeeds British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason to fill the one-year appointment, which offers a … » Read

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) has appointed two new permanent musicians—Alyssa Katahara as principal harp (pictured) and James Vaughen as assistant principal trumpet—and promoted Jack Walters, with the DSO since 2017, to … » Read

On Nov. 24 violinist Midori Komachi will premiere Imogen Holst’s Violin Concerto, a work composed in 1935 that languished in the archive at Britten Pears Arts in Aldeburgh until she discovered the manuscript and saw to its publication. … » Read

Patrick Summers will step down as artistic and music director of the Houston Grand Opera at the close of the 2025-26 season. Hired by David Gockley in 1998, Summers has overseen the premieres of 11 works at HGO, long known for artistic … » Read

The infamous Page Six of the New York Post has cited Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb as blaming critics for resisting opera that is accessible and thus panning it. He cites New York Times Chief Critic Zachary Woolfe’s review of … » Read