The Manchester (VT) Music Festival will have new leadership in place for its 50 th -anniversary season in the summer of 2024. As of October 1, 2023, Philip Setzer, violinist in the soon-to-retire Emerson String Quartet, takes the post of the … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—Yannick Nézet-Séguin is remaking the Metropolitan Opera from the bottom up. When the 48-year-old conductor leans forward to extend his arms and emphasize vibrato or stretches high for a fortissimo during an … » Read

The first time I heard Huang Yi conduct, I barely noticed. The revival of Jin Xiang’s 1987 opera  Savage Land at the 2012 Beijing Music Festival (BMF) had a huge, high-profile Chinese cast, with no spotlight shining on the pit. Three … » Read

The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus , a vast music training program with seven choirs and a number of Grammy wins and nominations to its credit, has brought Kurt J. Swanson on board as interim executive director. He succeeds Andrew Bradford, … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony- and Grammy Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who with composer Jerry Bock made up the premier musical-theater songwriting duos of the 1950s and 1960s with shows such as Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!, and The … » Read

Renée Fleming is among the The John F. Kennedy Center honorees for 2023, the 47 th annual, which celebrate “lifetime artistic achievements.” Fleming, 64, joins actor and comedian Billy Crystal; falsetto Bee Gees chief Barry … » Read

The Seattle Opera has announced that General Director Christina Scheppelmann will exit at the close of her current, five-year contract in 2024 to become the next general director of La Monnaie/De Munt in Brussels, Belgium, in 2025. She is to … » Read

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming performances of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis will mark Riccardo Muti’s last subscription concerts as music director (a free “Concert for Chicago” on June 27 is the very last), … » Read

The Winston-Salem (NC) Symphony has hired its first female music director in Michelle Merrill , the only woman out of the six candidates who have been guest conducting the orchestra over the last three seasons in the search for Robert … » Read

NEW YORK—How do you choreograph a scene of mass food poisoning? A young woman in an erotic frenzy? Or a couple whose passion is so intense, they literally catch fire? These were just a few of the storytelling challenges awaiting … » Read