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Murray Perahia has withdrawn from his August 24 concert in Latvia with the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, and from concerts at the Salzburg Festival (August 30 and 31), BBC Proms (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

The opera world remains divided on Placido Domingo’s indiscretions, with the likes of Sonya Yoncheva and Anna Netrebko defending him, along with the Salzburg Festival, where he is still scheduled to appear next Sunday. The Teatro Royal, … » Read

She has captivated audiences from the Metropolitan Opera to the Mariinsky Theater, where she began her career mopping the stage. Yet there is little of the distant, aloof diva in Anna Netrebko, who regularly shares pictures of herself and her … » Read

The protests in Hong Kong will be at the core of two new projects by the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The first, a new production of Puccini’s Turandot , which he will design and direct for the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, is … » Read

David Polk is leaving his position as program director of Chicago’s classical music station WFMT after 13 years with the company. He started as an intern under the late Andrew Patner, when he was critic-at-large. Polk had worked his way up … » Read