Michele Mariotti has been named as successor to Daniele Gatti as music director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. The 42-year-old Italian conductor, currently music director at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, assumes his new post November 2022 … » Read

The Chicago Symphony, which plans to unveil its 2021-22 season next month, has announced its first artist in residence; she is Hilary Hahn, a violinist of worldwide fame, of course, but also one of the most generous artist-contributors to the … » Read

PARIS (AP) — South African opera star Pretty Yende said she was detained by French authorities, strip searched and held in a dark room at Paris’s main airport after arriving this week for a starring role at the Theatre des … » Read

Louisa Proske, co-founder and co-artistic director of Heartbeat Opera, will step down to become associate artistic director of Oper Halle; she will, at the same time stay connected to the bold, eight-year-old New York based company with the title … » Read

The Las Vegas Philharmonic has a new executive director as of May 3, coming to the city from Grand Rapids, MI, where she served for the last year as a consultant and, prior to that, COO to a startup called Aid the Neway International_SignArt. At … » Read

As Marin Alsop concludes her tenure as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) with a star-filled live broadcast and online gala on June 19, she looks back on her 14 years with both pride and regret. Now a much better ensemble … » Read

Louis Langrée has said that he will not extend his contract as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra beyond 2023-24, by which time he will have been at the orchestra’s helm for 11 seasons. “This hasn’t been … » Read

The World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) has elected a new president in Peter Paul Kainrath, artistic director of the Ferrucio Busoni Piano Competition and CEO of Klangforum Wien. He will serve a three-year term, … » Read

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), located in Winston-Salem—one of UNC’s 17 statewide campuses—is undergoing major changes, as witnessed by the arrival of new deans at three of its five genre-specific … » Read

When Magda Krance, the Lyric Opera’s director of media relations, retires at the end of June, she will leave behind a world markedly different from the one she entered 30 years ago. Gone are Chicago’s multiple daily newspapers, each … » Read