Veteran arts administrator Cora Cahan [pictured] is to be the next president and CEO of the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC); she succeeds Georgiana Pickett, who served as executive director from August 2011 to April 2019. Cahan brings an impressive … » Read

Acclaimed Georgian composer Giya Kancheli has died at the age of 84. A well-known theater and film scorer-- Kin-Dza-Dza!  (1986) and  Pasport  (1990), to name a few—he composed more than 37 orchestral pieces, 10 chamber music … » Read

Plácido Domingo has resigned as general director of the Los Angeles Opera and withdrawn from all future performances there. Statement from Domingo: “Recent accusations that have been made against me in the press have created an … » Read

Anne-Sophie Mutter’s appearance on Sept. 28 was billed as one of the highlights of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s (CSO) 125 th anniversary season. Mutter, one of the world’s great violin virtuosos, had appeared only once … » Read

From Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler: “Over the long period of more than 40 years, Jessye Norman managed to make each of her performances an event that radiated profoundly throughout daily life for a long time. These were not … » Read

The late Herbert Kuperferberg was assigned in 1981 by Musical America to write a profile of Jessye Norman at the height of her career. She was the 1982 Musician of the Year yet her Metropolitan Opera debut was still one year away. A soprano who … » Read

That was quick—but also inevitable, perhaps. Chad Smith, who first joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2002 and was named COO in 2015, is the new President and CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. “The LA Phil has been my creative … » Read

On Sept. 27 the 92 nd Street Y tapped Seth Pinsky as its new chief executive, beginning in January 2020. A former head of the Bloomberg administration’s economic development corporation, Pinsky succeeds Henry Timms, who was appointed … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Jessye Norman, the renowned international opera star whose passionate soprano voice won her four Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honor, has died, according to family spokesperson Gwendolyn … » Read

The Met mourns the loss of Jessye Norman, one of the great sopranos of the past half-century. Starting with her Met debut as Cassandra in Berlioz’s Les Troyens on Opening Night of the Met’s centennial 1983–84 season, Norman sang … » Read