French cellist Bruno Philippe has signed with Askonas Holt for general management having previously been with l’agence, which will now represent him solely in France. A onetime prize-winner at the Tchaikovsky, Feuermann, and ARD … » Read

American soprano Lisette Oropesa is one of the lucky few in the opera world—she is busy singing while most of her contemporaries have been silenced by Covid-19. She recently took time away from preparing to sing Konstanze in Mozart’s … » Read

In 2016, Helga Rabl-Stadler , the iron-fist, velvet-glove president of the Salzburg Festival, signed an extension of her contract that would see her creating and overseeing the program for the festival’s centennial season, in summer 2020. … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, silenced by the pandemic, has lost its principal harp to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Emmanuel Ceysson , with the MET Orchestra since 2015, will succeed Lou Anne Neill, who has retired after 37 years. Ceysson, … » Read

Thierry Fischer, music director of the Utah Symphony since 2009, has decided to stay for a little while longer, reversing a decision announced in May 2019 that he would be leaving at the close of his current contract, in August 2022. At the time … » Read

Sedgwick Clark, longtime features editor of the Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts, has retired after nearly 30 years in the job. He will stay involved in an “emeritus” capacity. Susan Elliott remains … » Read

The Canadian soprano Erin Wall died of complications from metastatic breast cancer on Oct. 8. She was 44. Baritone Brett Polegato, who sang with her in a concert performance of Peter Grimes in 2018, lauded his colleague for “the sheer … » Read

Bramwell Tovey has resigned as artistic director of the Calgary Opera, a position he has held since January 2019. Tovey has been dealing with cancer since 2018; his medical team suggested that he use the time now, when he is restricted from … » Read

Linda Moxley , VP of marketing and communications for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, is headed to Florida, where she is to be the first ever executive director of the Sarasota Concert Association, which, heretofore, has been run by a volunteer … » Read

Miah Im , director of opera studies at Rice University and music director of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, is to be head coach of the Aspen Music Festival and School’s new Opera Theater VocalARTS program. An AMFS alumna, she will assist … » Read