Tim McKeough has resigned as press director for the Metropolitan Opera; his last day is Friday, August 30. In the job since June of 2017 , McKeough, Australian by birth, is leaving to set up the New York office of WildKat PR, a London-based … » Read

SALZBURG, Austria — Plácido Domingo received a standing ovation as he took to the stage at the Salzburg Festival on Sunday, a concerted show of support at his first performance since nine women accused him of sexual harassment in a … » Read

Christopher Hoare, communications and IT chief for the HarrisonParrott artist management firm, has pleaded guilty to fraud. He was accused of embezzling 362,000 pounds (about $450,000) since 2010 for personal use. The prosecutor said: “He … » Read

Abigail Rollins is to be the executive director of the Berkshire (MA) Opera Festival as of September 3. She succeeds Claudia d’Alessandro, serving as interim; previously, cofounders Artistic Director Brian Garman and Director of Production … » Read

In 2018 Welsh National Opera held a symposium, “Where Are All the Women?” Now it has one answer, naming Tianyi Lu [pictured] as its first female conductor-in-residence. The symposium looked at challenges facing women in the classical … » Read

Murray Perahia has withdrawn from his August 24 concert in Latvia with the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, and from concerts at the Salzburg Festival (August 30 and 31), BBC Proms ( Sep. 3), and the Lucerne Festival (Sept. 6), citing ill … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO — Los Angeles Opera said Tuesday it had hired Debra Wong Yang from the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to lead a “thorough and independent investigation” of the charges against its general director, opera … » Read

A Japanese academic’s unexpected discovery of a cache of 350 letters in the Library of Congress has brought to light a decade-long affair between Leonard Bernstein and Kunihiko Hashimoto, a Japanese man 35 years his junior. Hashimoto first … » Read

Neil Williams, a 15-year veteran of the Glyndebourne Opera chorus, is suing the company for unfair dismissal and age discrimination. “I was discarded like an old rag,” the Royal Academy of Music graduate told the Daily Mail . … » Read

Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov, under house arrest largely for his outspoken views since August 2017, has been vindicated—for now. He had been accused of helping to embezzle 68 million rubles (more than $1 million) … » Read