Sofia Gubaidulina, considered the most important Russian composer of the present day, died at her home near Hamburg on March 13, 2025. She was 93 years old. Drawing inspiration from her deep faith and her belief in the transformative power of … » Read

Italy’s Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli has appointed Nicola Colabianchi [pictured] as superintendent of the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice. He arrives after five years in the same post with the Cagliari Lirico. Colabianchi succeeds … » Read

Esteban Batallán's abrupt departure as principal trumpet for the Philadelphia Orchestra just six months after his arrival set tongues wagging. He has now explained why he is returning to Chicago for the same position, after a year’s … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—“Davidsen Goes out with a Bang,” read the headline in Broadway World’s review of the Metropolitan Opera revival of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” And indeed Lise Davidsen is in a sense “going … » Read

  A 65-year-old conductor who was Covent Garden’s music director from 2002-24, Pappano succeeded Simon Rattle as the LSO’s chief conductor last September and has a quick commute from his home in Hampstead to the LSO’s … » Read

Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki has been named professor of orchestral conducting at the Sibelius Academy of Uniarts Helsinki, an institution well-known for training major conductors of modern times, including Mälkki, Esa-Pekka … » Read

Patrick Hahn—current artistic director of the Musik der Zeit concert series at the WDR Symphony and of the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik festival—is to be the next director of the Ensemble intercontemporain, effective as of … » Read

Christopher Hahn has announced that the 2025-26 season will be his last as general director for the Pittsburgh Opera . He was appointed to the position in 2008, after serving for eight years as artistic director. The South African native began … » Read

Matthew Lutton is to be the new artistic director of the Adelaide Festival, with a three-year contract beginning in 2026. He succeeds Brett Sheehy, whose association with the festival dates to 2003. For the past nine years, Lutton has been … » Read

After nearly a decade, David Snead will step down as president and chief executive of the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) at the end of the 2024-2025 season in May. Snead, who joined the organization in 2015 after postings at the New York … » Read