Richard Mantle, OBE, is to retire as general director of Opera North next year after nearly 30 years in the job. He is among the U.K.’s most highly regarded artistic leaders. “He leaves an organisation that is radically different to … » Read

Michael S. Rosenberg, recent managing director of McCarter Theater Center in Princeton (NJ), longtime managing director of La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, CA, is to be the new president and CEO of New York’s City Center. He succeeds Arlene … » Read

Kate Suthers [pictured] is to be the new concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, effective later this month. She succeeds Natsuko Yoshimoto, now concertmaster of the Queensland Symphony after 12 years with Adelaide. Suthers leads the … » Read

No doubt August 2022 is a month that Plácido Domingo would just as soon forget. An accusation of involvement with a sex crime ring in Buenos Aires early in the month,  later refuted in large measure,  nonetheless reminded the … » Read

Irish conductor Killian Farrell [left], 28, is to succeed Philippe Bach as general music director of the Meiningen State Theater in Germany as of 2023-24. The current Kapellmeister and assistant to the GMD at the Stuttgart State Opera, Farrell … » Read

German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt died on September 5 after a long battle with cancer. He was 51 years old. His management firm, Askonas Holt, has confirmed his death. A winner of the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition, where he … » Read

Last weekend, New York and Hong Kong philharmonics Music Director Jaap Van Zweden led his first rehearsals with the latter orchestra in two years. In a bizarre coincidence, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) announced at about the same time … » Read

As orchestras prep for the coming season, quite a few are filling vacancies left from even before the pandemic, since auditions were impossible during that time. The Cincinnati Symphony has ten newcomers, eight of whom are coming into tenured … » Read

The Philadelphia-born Marc Blitzstein has a legitimate claim to being one of America’s best unknown composers. The son of Russian immigrants, he studied composition at the Curtis Institute and at 21 was a musician accomplished enough to … » Read

Norwegian conductor Grete Pedersen has been announced as the new artistic director and principal conductor of the Carmel Bach Festival, which prides itself on being “the longest-running summer music festival in California.” Somehow … » Read