Yesterday, Trump surprised staff at Kennedy Center by saying he planned to announce the Kennedy Center honorees today. He just did: Metal band Kiss [pictured]; longtime Phantom of the Opera star Michael Crawford; Gloria Gaynor, best known for her … » Read

The Jackson (TN) Symphony has appointed Tamás Kocsis as its new concertmaster. The Hungarian native studied at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music with Josef Gingold, followed by further training at The Juilliard School under … » Read

James Burton, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s choral director since 2017, will step down from his position at the end of the current Tanglewood season. The British conductor’s last performances with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus … » Read

Jessica Munch-Dittmar  [pictured] is the new executive director of the Fayetteville (NC) Symphony Orchestra (FSO), arriving at the same time as Music Director Stefan Sanders has announced his intention to exit at the end of 2025-26, after … » Read

A case of the summer flu caused tenor Piotr Beczala to withdraw from the concluding performance of Lohengrin at Bayreuth on Aug. 9 as well as his appearance in Carmen at Verona five days later. Klaus Florian Vogt filled the title role at … » Read

The Portland (OR) Opera has promoted composer/conductor/bass-baritone Damien Geter from artistic advisor and interim music director to music director. The Chicago-based Geter is composer-in-residence at the Richmond Symphony; his most recent … » Read

The Washington, D.C.-based Cathedral Choral Society (CCS) has extended its arrangement with Music Director Steven Fox through the 2028-29 season. He has been in the job since 2018, one of only two to hold the title since the group’s … » Read

Morton Herbert Meyerson, whose quiet philanthropy helped transform the Dallas Symphony Orchestra into one of the nation’s elite ensembles, died after a long battle with cancer at his home in Dallas on Aug. 5. He was 87. Meyerson’s … » Read

Conductor Killian Farrell will join the Staatstheater Nürnberg as general music director beginning with the 2027/28 season. Among his first duties will be to guide the ensemble’s 2028 relocation to its new venue—the Kongresshalle … » Read

At the moment the drama underway at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples is political, not musical (though it is certainly operatic). At issue is the leadership of the storied company. Stephane Lissner, who had been the general director of the Paris … » Read