NEW YORK--The contemplative aura that gently emanates from Michael Vincent Waller ’s music suggests a hard-won focus on the essential, distilled from long decades of reflection and experience. But the composer was already shaping this … » Read

NEW YORK--The fireworks start early this New Year's Eve at the Metropolitan Opera, where two jealous divas locked in a deadly rivalry will be setting off sparks in a new production of Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur. Russian soprano Anna … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra musicians have reached and ratified a three-year contract agreement with management, effective in the current season through 2020/2021. The orchestra, which ended fiscal 2018 in the red, with a deficit of $1.3 million on a … » Read

The Center for the Arts of Jackson Hole, WY, whose programming ranges across all genres and disciplines, has named David J. Rothman to the newly established post of president and CEO. He starts January 7. The Center boasts that it is home to 19 … » Read

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) has two new musicians among its ranks. Erik Rynearson [pictured] is the new principal viola and Erick Jovel the new permanent second trumpet. Both are SoCal natives and represent Music Director Designate Jaime … » Read

Another top public relations staffer has left the Lincoln Center campus. Last week it was reported that Katherine Johnson had left the New York Philharmonic as VP of communications. Now Alexandra Day, the Juilliard School’s VP of public … » Read

Juan Diego Flórez has left the role of Alfredo in the Met’s run of La Traviata earlier than scheduled. The company reports he is ill and so has withdrawn from the December 26 performance. Stephen Costello, already slated to sing … » Read

Composer/conductor Tan Dun will assume the newly created position of dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music next July. Dun, whose composing and conducting accolades include Grammy awards, Oscars, and the Grawemeyer, holds a masters degree … » Read

Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla’s much anticipated New York Philharmonic debut, scheduled for concerts January 3-5, has been postponed, “due to maternity/family leave following the birth of her first child,” according … » Read

Laura R. Walker, longtime president and CEO of New York Public Radio, announced yesterday that she would step down in March. Walker, 61, has been with WNYC since 1995; over time she has created a major non-profit, independent media company with … » Read