Oklahoma’s Tulsa Symphony has hired Morgan Walker, current executive director of the Shreveport (LA) Symphony, as its next executive director. She succeeds Ron Predl, who plans to retire next spring after a 13-year run with the orchestra. … » Read

VENICE, Italy (AP) — The storied Venetian opera house La Fenice is locked in a dispute with its workers over the appointment of a young and telegenic music director with ties to Premier Giorgia Meloni but none with the musicians with whom … » Read

Sarasota philanthropists Tom and Sherry Koski have contributed $5 million to the Sarasota Orchestra to support its Music Center. “For Sherry and me, this gift is deeply personal, and we feel this is our lasting legacy to the Sarasota … » Read

Donald Trump’s boast last February that he would “make the Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!” has apparently fallen on deaf ears. Attendance has since plummeted, no more so than at the Washington National Opera … » Read

PARIS (AP)—Protesters repeatedly disrupted a concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris, brandishing flares and sounding alarms that caused brief panic in the crowd and led musicians to leave the stage. Authorities said four … » Read

A Berlin court has agreed to lift proceedings after creditors have accepted the self-administered insolvency process completed by classical music streaming service IDAGIO. This assures that IDAGIO will continue to offer its streaming services and … » Read

Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) is in the midst of a leadership shake-up .  Less than a month ago, Clinée Hedspeth, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice as DCASE commissioner, resigned … » Read

A terse email from Divad Sanders, the president of the Newark School of the Arts (NSA), announced to faculty and staff the institution’s sudden closing on October 27 “due to significant fiscal operational concerns….. As such … » Read

LONDON—Katie Mitchell is known for her frequently revelatory radical Feminist revisions of the operatic canon, but in the case of Janácek’s The Makropulos Case she has staged an all-out intervention. Last week, the British … » Read

The Royal Opera’s first-time staging of Janácek’s The Makropulos Case this November represents the swan song for noted director Katie Mitchell, who has announced her retirement from opera “because,” she tells The … » Read