Since André Previn’s death last February, his friend and longtime editor David Fetherolf has been at work completing Penelope , a final commission based on Homer’s Odyssey with a text by Tom Stoppard. The work, commissioned by … » Read

Last month, Teodor Currentzis [pictured] resigned as artistic director of the Perm State Opera and Ballet Theater, a position he had held since 2011. Currentzis, chief conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra and founder and head of MusicAeterna, … » Read

Vivian Perlis, the music historian who launched the invaluable  Oral History of American Music at Yale University, died on July 4 at the age of 91. As Libby Van Cleve writes in her  tribute article when Ms. Perlis was named Musical … » Read

Aaron Rosand, famed violinist and pedagogue, died on July 9 at the age of 92. A member of the class of 1948 of the Curtis Institute, Rosand made his professional recital debut at age nine in a recital at Chicago’s Civic Opera House and … » Read

Marcus L. Overton, a passionate and colorful 54-year veteran of performing arts administration as well as an Emmy award-winning radio and TV host, died at age 75 on June 9 in San Diego, after a long battle with kidney disease.   … » Read

Another major artist has left Columbia Artists, this one with plans for a significant change in repertoire. Deborah Voigt has moved to the year-old, San Francisco-based Promethean Artists, with which she plans to ease off opera and concentrate … » Read

ORANGE, FR -- When Peter Gelb took over New York's legendary Metropolitan Opera in 2006, one of his jobs was to organize a farewell for Placido Domingo. But 13 years later the indefatigable Spanish tenor is still "the king of opera," headlining … » Read

Austrian conductor Hans Graf is to be chief conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) as of the 2020-21 season. Graf, onetime music director of the Houston Symphony, among others, will succeed Chinese American Lan Shui, who stepped down … » Read

More changes at the Juilliard School as the new president continues to realign key staff and in some cases faculty members. Latest is Rosalie Contreras, who has relocated from Seattle, where she has been with the Seattle Symphony for 19 years, … » Read

João Gilberto, credited as the father of the bossa nova, has died at the age of 88. According to AFP, he has been living in Rio for the last decade, struggling with mental health and financial issues. In 1958, Gilberto launched what was to … » Read