Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia, a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer, described as “one of the finest scholars in all of post-colonial Africa,” died on March 13 in Legon, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital of Accra. He was 97. During … » Read

Jennifer Turner [pictured], executive VP and managing director of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, in Orange Country, CA, is to be the president and CEO of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, effective in May. She succeeds Kathleen … » Read

In announcing its upcoming season, the revitalized Louisville Orchestra also announced that the primary source of its turnaround, Music Director Teddy Abrams, planned to stay put. In fact Abrams, now 31, has extended his role at the artistic helm … » Read

Christina Scheppelmann, artistic director general of Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, is to be the next general director of the Seattle Opera; she succeeds Aidan Lang, who exits after four years to be general director of Welsh National … » Read

Daniel E. Beckley, VP and general manager of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, former chief executive of the Charleston (SC) Symphony, is to be the new executive director of the Kansas City Symphony as of July 29. He will succeed Frank Byrne, … » Read

Israeli conductor Eliahu Inbal, 83, is to be principal conductor of Taipei Symphony Orchestra as of August; he has signed a three-season contract and plans to lead complete Mahler, Bruckner, and Shostakovich symphony cycles during his term, … » Read

The Czech National Symphony Orchestra (CNSO) has selected American-born conductor Steven Mercurio as its new music director as of 2019-2020 season. He succeeds Libor Pešek, in the position since 2007. Mercurio, no stranger to the CNSO, has … » Read

BERLIN — Nowhere is The Magic Flute more over-analyzed and over-fetishized than in the German-speaking world. So the stakes were especially high for director Yuval Sharon when he agreed to stage a new production for the Berlin Staatsoper. … » Read

LONDON—“It feels like a Russian novel,” enthuses conductor Antonio Pappano of Verdi’s middle-period epic La forza del destino (1862), an opera that was written for premiere in St. Petersburg but only arrived at its final … » Read

The Italian ensemble Quartetto di Cremona--Cristiano Gualco and Paolo Andreoli violins, Simone Gramaglia viola, Giovanni Scaglione cello--has won the Franco Buitoni Award 2019, receiving £25,000 and a specially … » Read