Among the many invisible personnel that make a Metropolitan Opera performance run smoothly, the prompter is essential. More than 200 times a season, Carol Isaac or one of seven other prompters will enter a little box through the orchestra pit, … » Read

Members of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra have elected the ensemble’s first non-Finnish chief conductor: As of fall 2021, British maestro Nicholas Collon is to succeed Hannu Lintu, in the job since 2013. The orchestra, whose origins … » Read

Chad Herzog, co-executive director and programmer of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, is to become executive director of UA Presents, the presenting organization of the University of Arizona. He succeeds Chuck Tennes, who stepped … » Read

The Chicago Symphony  musicians’ strike lasted seven weeks, but in fact negotiations had been ongoing for months, the contract having expired last September. Federal negotiators got involved during the strike, but even they … » Read

Osmo Vänskä will  leave as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in 2022, but before he does, he will take up the post of music director of the Seoul Philharmonic as of next January. He succeeds Chung Myung-whun, who quit in … » Read

Mark Richter, director of the Alamo City Opera, in Austin, TX, died last weekend at the age of 51. "He was the one that many, many years ago started the resurgence of the new opera here,” Kirstin Roach, the company’s music director, … » Read

Jean Bowen Bloch, longtime chief of the Music Division of the New York Public Library and  director of the Central Research Library at 42 nd Street, died on April 27 in Washington, DC. She was 92 and was a very close friend of the late, … » Read

NEW YORK — Her character suffers through one of the most harrowing deathbed scenes in all of opera. But that doesn't faze Karita Mattila, who's looking forward to performing it as "quite an adventure." The Finnish soprano, noted for her … » Read

Menon Dwarka is to be executive director of Toronto’s Art of Time Ensemble (ATE) as of May 14. He succeeds David Abel, who has joined the National Arts Center as managing director, English Theater. “For me, this role offers a … » Read

It takes a lot for a young jazz artist to get noticed. Just ask Musical America’s New Artist of the Month Emmet Cohen. For years, the 28-year-old has been an indefatigable presence on the New York scene, playing piano (he doubles on Hammond … » Read