On May 31 David B. Devan stepped down as general director of Opera Philadelphia after a 13-year run that included company-defining programs, a financially devastating pandemic, and the unavoidable reckoning with the dilemmas facing opera … » Read

Florian Wiegand, concert manager of the Salzburg Festival since 2012, has been announced by the mayor of Munich as the next Intendant of the Munich Philharmoniker in September 2025. He succeeds Paul Müller, who departs after 16 years. The … » Read

The National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) has a new, two-year resident conductor program, open to Canadian citizens as an opportunity for mentorship by and assistance to Music Director Alexander Shelley, Principal Guest Conductor John … » Read

Another (very) young Finn will step into a job for a seasoned music director. Tarmo Peltokoski, 24, is to succeed Jaap Van Zweden, 64, as music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, as of 2026-27 for four years,  serving as designate in … » Read

Christoph Müller is to be the new Intendant and artistic director of Settimane Musicali Ascona, which this season runs from August 31 to October 8 in Ticino, Switzerland. He starts in the fall of 2025, arriving after 24 years in a similar … » Read

The New York Choral Society has appointed Ellen Putney Moore as the 65-year-old organization’s next executive director, with immediate effect. She succeeds Pat Owens, in the post since 2017 and credited with transforming it into a more … » Read

On June 27 the board of the San Francisco Opera elected Barbara A. Wolfe to succeed John Gunn as its new chair, effective as of August. Gunn, who is to become chair emeritus, has held the position since 2008 and steps down at the end of the … » Read

Paul Sperry, a tenor whose devotion to songs by living American composers as well as some of the most challenging by late-20th-century Europeans won praise here and abroad, died in New York on June 13. He was 90. A graduate of Harvard and Harvard … » Read

LONDON—It’s a mark of a fine actor when you see him multiple times and only realize it’s the same person when you check his program biography. In 2021 at Grange Park’s The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko I admired … » Read

The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) has named Samuel Hollister as its next assistant conductor, succeeding  Stephanie Childress who exited the job in 2023 and has moved on to some high-profile engagements. Hollister, chosen after … » Read