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

Composer/arranger/pedagogue Larry Clark, former longtime VP and editor-in-chief for Carl Fischer Music, is being called on the carpet for using a fictitious name on a number of his compositions. A  Facebook posting by Arizona based … » Read

American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton is on a roll. In 2013 she won both top prizes at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition (only the second singer ever to do so) and since has appeared on many of the world’s top opera stages. As … » Read

On Aug. 31 Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler [pictured], president of the Salzburg Festival, weighed in on the controversy surrounding a German music critic’s [Manuel Brug of Die Welt ] “body-shaming" of Kathryn Lewek , who recently assayed the … » Read

Brandon Ridenour [pictured] is returning to the Canadian brass to succeed Christopher Coletti, whom he replaced ten years ago in the group. It was actually Ridenour who suggested Coletti replace him, so the do-si-do is now completed. Ridenour, a … » Read

MILAN--At the end of June, La Scala superintendent Alexander Pereira [pictured] found he would soon be out of a job , after the theater's board refused to renew his contract through 2022. The following month, a vacancy emerged at the Festival of … » Read

Alexander Steinbeis, longtime managing director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, has announced his intention to leave in August 2020. He will have been in the job, which involves artistic planning as well as overseeing administrative … » Read