SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An investigation into legendary singer Plácido Domingo by the U.S. union representing opera performers found more than two dozen people who said they were sexually harassed or witnessed inappropriate behavior by … » Read

Dave Moss , executive director of the Haymarket Opera in Chicago and a former violist with the Chicago Philharmonic and Elgin Symphony, starts his new job as executive director of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra March 1. He succeeds Scott Harrison, … » Read

Tobi Tobias, longtime dance critic for New York magazine (1980-2002), contributor to The New York Times, The Village Voice, Bloomberg News, Dance Magazine , and other outlets, died on February 13 at her home in Manhattan. She was 81 and had been … » Read

Marguerite Lynn Williams, principal harp of the Lyric Opera of Chicago orchestra, is to be the new principal of the Minnesota Orchestra, effective next season. Williams--also on the faculties of the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern … » Read

Renée Fleming is donating her personal archives to the Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections at Juilliard. The collection documents her career, from its beginnings in the 1980s up to the present, and includes selected correspondence, press … » Read

In 2002, family considerations led Esther Nelson to take a break from a successful career that had seen her at the helms of companies in Nevada, North Carolina, Virginia, and Cooperstown, N.Y. By the time the Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) approached … » Read

Eric Jacobsen , music director of the Orlando Philharmonic, cofounder and coartistic director of the new music ensemble The Knights, has entered the race for artistic director of the Oregon Bach Festival. He joins the previously announced Julian … » Read

Philippe Tondre , principal oboe of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, among other ensembles, is to be the new principal with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He starts officially next season, but has been sitting in with the group since winning the … » Read

William “Bill” Winstead, former principal bassoonist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and a much beloved composer and teacher, died at the age 77 on Feb. 12.  A month earlier the CSO had premiered his Passages in Time , … » Read

JERUSALEM--Despite objections from sexual abuse activists, the Israeli Opera will host a weeklong singing competition organized by Spanish opera star Plácido Domingo in Tel Aviv later this year. Domingo, 80, has withdrawn from all U.S. … » Read