Sir George Benjamin will succeed Tania León in September 2025 as composer-in-residence for the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The 64-year-old London native, Musical America’s 2014 Composer of the Year , is a student of Olivier … » Read

Martin Rajna, principal conductor of the Hungarian State Opera, is the new chief conductor of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra as of 2026. The Hungarian maestro, 29, succeeds Gustavo Gimeno, in the job for ten years. Gimeno is the current … » Read

Jonathon Heyward, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, will continue his summer job at the helm of Lincoln Center’s Festival Orchestra, the reincarnation of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, which played its final concerts in the … » Read

Gary Ginstling was hired Friday as CEO of the Houston Symphony, six months following his  surprise departure from the New York Philharmonic after just one year in charge. Ginstling will start Feb. 3 and replace John Mangum, who had been … » Read

The centenary of Pierre Boulez’s birth this year will be the occasion for several celebrations of his work as a composer, conductor, and musical polemicist. In anticipation of upcoming festivals by the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC … » Read

Otto Schenk, whose opulent productions of Wagner held sway at the Metropolitan Opera from the late 1970s to the early ’90s, died at his home in Austria on Jan. 9. He was 94. Known in Austria for his talents as an actor, particularly in … » Read

Tonight, Bryn Terfel will take to the Metropolitan Opera stage as Baron Scarpia, opposite soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in Tosca . Long a Met favorite, the Welsh bass-baritone has been absent from the company for 13 years due to injury and a … » Read

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against … » Read

It appears that wealthy Metropolitan Opera snowbirds are supporting the  appearance of Anna Netrebko at the February fund raiser for the Palm Beach Opera (PBO), her first Stateside engagement since being fired by the Met three years ago. The … » Read

Tom Johnson, a composer whose Village Voice columns between 1971 and 1983 documented the emergence of American minimalism, died on Dec. 31 at his home in Paris. He was 85. After earning B.A. and M.M. degrees from Yale University, the Colorado … » Read