Sue Elliott is to be general director and CEO of the Calgary Opera as of November 20 th , 2023. She succeeds Heather Kitchen, who is retiring after five years in the job and 40 in arts administration. Elliott arrives to the 50-year-old opera … » Read

Students at the Cleveland Institute of Music have won their campaign against CIM Orchestral Studies Director and Principal Conductor Carlos Kalmar. Two weeks after their sit-in to protest investigation results that cleared him of selected … » Read

Pianist Russell Sherman died on September 30 at his home in Lexington, MA. He was 93. Mr. Sherman was born in New York and made his Town Hall debut in 1945. After spending time in New York's contemporary music circles, a move to California and … » Read

Upon first blush, the appointment of Christian Thielemann to succeed Daniel Barenboim as music director at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden beginning with the 2024-25 season seemed a good fit. One of the great interpreters of Wagner, Bruckner, and … » Read

Scott Altman, current president and CEO of the Cincinnati Ballet, onetime opera singer and opera company executive, is to be the new president and CEO of the Los Angeles Master Chorale as of January 2. He succeeds Jean Davidson, who exited in … » Read

On Sept. 22, Alejandro Meerapfel suffered a fatal heart attack and died on stage while performing at the Ambronay Early Music Festival in France. The 54-year-old Argentinian baritone was singing the role of God the Father in Antonio … » Read

BERLIN (AP) — Christian Thielemann has been chosen as the new general music director of Berlin’s Staatsoper, months after Daniel Barenboim ended his three-decade reign , the city government said Wednesday. The 64-year-old German … » Read

Aidan Lang has announced his retirement as general director of the Welsh National Opera (WNO) at the end of this year. Perhaps spurred on by Arts Council England’s cuts to the WNO   and its touring program, Lang will be exiting after … » Read

The good fairies generously allotted the skills required to succeed as a conductor to Stephanie Childress . Or so it occurred to me while recently seeing this 24-year-old phenomenon in action leading a spirited, remarkably poised account of … » Read

For the next few months composer Jake Heggie is going to be a very busy man. Dead Man Walking , his breakout opera of 2000, opens the Metropolitan Opera’s season this evening. Across the Lincoln Center Plaza three nights later, The Elements … » Read