Succeeding the much-heralded Ian Robertson, who retires presently after 35 years as director of the San Francisco Opera Chorus, is John Keene, the current head of the music staff and chorus master of the Seattle Opera. He starts remotely in … » Read

Large in spirit as well as form, mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton doesn’t mince words when it comes to her shifting career goals and her general approach to life. “What I do see already happening, and am really interested in being a part … » Read

London-based American Ryan Bancroft, who last month was given the 2021 Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor Award, has landed a new job. He is to be chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (RSPO) as of 2023-24; in the … » Read

French conductor Pierre Bleuse is to be the next music director of the Ensemble intercontemporain, effective in the 2023-24 season and succeeding Matthias Pintscher, in the job since 2013. Bleuse, 44, is the new chief conductor of the Odense … » Read

It was only in July that the Zurich Opera renewed Andreas Homoki’s contract as intendant through 2025, but already waiting in the wings to succeed him is Matthias Schulz, the current director of Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden, … » Read

The Monteux School and Music Festival, the six-week conductor-intensive founded by legendary maestro Pierre Monteux in 1943, has a new executive director in Stan Renard , an alumnus of the school. Renard succeeds Marc C. Thayer, in the job … » Read

In October, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra opened with great fanfare its new home at Bradley Symphony Center, the $90 million conversion of the former Warner Grand Theater in the downtown area of the city. That's the good news, along with a … » Read

The world of musical theater lost a titan when Stephen Sondheim died at 91 on Nov. 19. “It is no exaggeration to say that Sondheim changed the nature of theatrical storytelling,” writes theater critic Charles McNulty in the Los … » Read

Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez is to be the next artistic director of the Rossini Opera Festival, an annual summer event dedicated to its namesake. He was recommended by his predecessor in the position, Ernesto Palacio, also a Peruvian … » Read

NEW YORK — Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Metropolitan Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Orchestre Métropolitain of Montreal, is taking a four-week sabbatical from all conducting starting Dec. 19 … » Read