The Portland (OR) Opera has promoted composer/conductor/bass-baritone Damien Geter from artistic advisor and interim music director to music director. The Chicago-based Geter is composer-in-residence at the Richmond Symphony; his most recent … » Read

The Washington, D.C.-based Cathedral Choral Society (CCS) has extended its arrangement with Music Director Steven Fox through the 2028-29 season. He has been in the job since 2018, one of only two to hold the title since the group’s … » Read

Conductor Killian Farrell will join the Staatstheater Nürnberg as general music director beginning with the 2027/28 season. Among his first duties will be to guide the ensemble’s 2028 relocation to its new venue—the Kongresshalle … » Read

At the moment the drama underway at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples is political, not musical (though it is certainly operatic). At issue is the leadership of the storied company. Stephane Lissner, who had been the general director of the Paris … » Read

Shannon Kelly has been promoted to president & CEO of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, succeeding Andrea F. Warren , in the job under three years. Kelly has been the VSO’s VP of development since January 2023 and is said to have rebuilt … » Read

As of October 15, New Music USA will have a new CEO in Vanessa Rose—not to be confused with her immediate predecessor, Vanessa Reed, who announced in February that she would exit to become CEO of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society. … » Read

Lidiya Yankovskaya, who stepped down as music director of the Chicago Opera Theater (COT) at the end of 2023, is pulling up stakes and relocating to London. Her reasons are twofold. The 39-year-old mother of two, who has lived in the Windy City … » Read

The Kentucky Opera has announced two leadership appointments. Peggy Kriha Miller has been selected as interim general director & CEO, succeeding Barbara Lynne Jamison, who took over as head of Opera Colorado on August 1. The … » Read

On May 30, a housekeeper found Matthew Christopher Pietras dead in his New York City apartment. The 40-year-old’s mysterious death ended a decade-long spree of personal excess and philanthropic largesse—all underwritten with other … » Read

Chloé Dufresne, a former Dudamel Fellow with a masters in conducting from the Sibelius Academy and top placements in several international competitions, is to be the new music director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic as of next … » Read