Baritone Sanford Sylvan died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. His death was confirmed to NPR by his mother Leonore Sylvan, sister Gwen Sylvan, and brother Seth Sylvan. He was 65 and died, suddenly, of what his family has said were “natural … » Read

Countertenor and University of Michigan faculty member David Daniels was arrested yesterday in Ann Arbor, MI, along with his husband, Scott Walters. They face extradition to Texas, where they have been accused by one Samuel Schultz of rape, eight … » Read

Peter Oundjian is to be the next music director of the Colorado Music Festival. He comes to the post after having served as artistic advisor last summer, an experience that he apparently found favorable. Oundjian is the former longtime music … » Read

PARIS (AP) — Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit, who has faced multiple accusations of sexual assault, will conduct a concert for the National Orchestra of France on Sunday, his highest profile performance since the allegations were first … » Read

Patricia Kiernan Johnson, OPERA America’s director of marketing and communications for the last ten years, is making a swift transition. She leaves the New York-based trade group this week and starts at the Curtis Institute of Music on … » Read

Carl Topilow , now in his 42 nd year as music director of the National Repertory Orchestra, has just signed a three-year contract that will take him through 2022. It is to be his last with the annual Breckenridge, CO, summer festival and youth … » Read

PARIS — Oscar-winning composer and pianist Michel Legrand, whose hits included the score for the '60s romance The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and the song The Windmills of Your Mind and who worked with some of biggest-name artists of the 20th … » Read

Italian conductor Daniele Rustioni, principal conductor of Opéra National de Lyon and Orchestra della Toscana, is to be chief conductor of the Ulster Orchestra as of next September. He succeeds Rafael Payare in September; Payare has been … » Read

Nicola Benedetti is putting her money where her mouth is when it comes to music education. Long a vigorous advocate for “building discipline, professionalism, concentration and perseverance . . . through the act of conscientious music … » Read

Bass-baritone Alan Held , a onetime a regular on the stages of The Metropolitan Opera, The Vienna State Opera, The Paris Opera, and others of kind, is  the new artistic director the Wichita Grand Opera. Held, current artist in residence for … » Read