On Dec. 3 Tobias Picker’s Lili Elbe had its world premiere at Theater St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Based on the life of the eponymous 20 th -century Danish painter, it is the first major opera about an historical transgender … » Read

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has extended the contract of Music Director Jader Bignamini through the end of the 2030-31 season, lengthening the current agreement by five years to reach a total of ten by its completion. The DSO is planning to … » Read

Kristen Linfante , executive director and artistic director for Chamber Music Pittsburgh, is to assume the former post with the Knights as of next month. She’ll be working with the group’s founding Artistic Directors Colin and Eric … » Read

Aaron Doty, current VP and general manager of the Grand Rapids Symphony, is to be the new president and CEO of the Reno (NV) Philharmonic. His appointment caps a search that began last summer, with David Hyslop serving as (as usual) interim. … » Read

The Welsh National Opera has tapped Christopher Barron to be interim general director in early January 2024. He follows Aidan Lang, who is retiring at the end of this year after four years in the position. Barron has considerable high-level … » Read

March of 2024 will find Plácido Domingo, age 82, and José Carreras, age 77, in Australia for The Legends Together Again, Live in Concert , a series of five concerts, complete with a 55-piece orchestra with conductor David … » Read

Trinity Church Wall Street’s next music director is an inside hire and the first woman to have the job in the church’s three-century-plus history. Perhaps not a surprising choice in light of the fact that her predecessor, Julian … » Read

As previously reported , then disputed , and official as of today, Valery Gergiev is the new general director of the Bolshoi Theater, marking the first time in Russia’s history that the head of the Mariinsky Theater has been run by the same … » Read

Stanford Live, the multi-genre performing arts presenter at Stanford University, has named Iris Nemani, chief programming officer of Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, as its next director. She arrives in April and succeeds Chris Lorway, who … » Read

The hands-down musical climax of Maestro is the recreation of the 1973 performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 by the London Symphony Orchestra in Ely Cathedral. Although shot over a three-day period, three years of painstaking preparation … » Read