While the Metropolitan Opera reports that two of Plácido Domingo’s three scheduled performances as Macbeth are sold out (Sept. 25 and 28), the much ballyhooed one-day  Plácido Domingo Gala HD event last  Saturday … » Read

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has a new principal English horn as of this season; he is Kyle Mustain [pictured], formerly in the same position with the Oregon Symphony for eight years. Mustain succeeds Harold Smoliar, who retired at the end … » Read

Kansas City Symphony Music Director Michael Stern [pictured] has extended his current contract through the 2022/23 season, after which he intends to step down.  When he does so, he will have been artistic overseer of the orchestra for 18 … » Read

As a result of  yesterday’s AP report that more individuals had come forward to confirm Domingo’s inappropriate behaviors, the Dallas Opera has cancelled its March 11 gala with him as its headliner. Dallas joins the Philadelphia … » Read

Unfortunately, stories of men behaving badly in the classical music world are losing their power to surprise us. The past few years have seen a plethora of claims of sexual abuse and intimidation by such luminaries as James Levine , Charles … » Read

The glittering production was a high point of the Washington Opera’s 1999-2000 season: Jules Massenet’s Le Cid ,about a legendary Spanish conqueror, starring a tenor legendary in his own right — Plácido Domingo, then … » Read

Louise Jeffreys, artistic director of the Barbican, is to become deputy chair of English National Opera and the London Coliseum. She succeeds Nicholas Allan. She announced her departure from the Barbican, scheduled for the end of this year, in … » Read

When the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) bids farewell to Michael Tilson Thomas, its music director for 25 years, at the end of the 2019-2020 season, it will also be saying goodbye to Joshua Robison. The couple, married in 2014, have been partners … » Read

Vuvu Mpofu, a 28-year-old South African soprano, appears poised to take the opera world by storm. “She will be a singer we will be one day be proud to have worked with,” Stephen Langridge, artistic director of Glyndebourne, tells The … » Read

David J. Kitto, former senior VP for marketing and sales at the Kennedy Center, is the new executive director the Washington, D.C.’s National Theater Corporation. He succeeded Sarah Bartlo-Chaplin, now at the State Theater New Jersey, in … » Read