NEW YORK (AP)—Daniele Rustioni was a 10-year-old in the La Scala children’s chorus when he saw Riccardo Muti for the first time. “I want to be him,” Rustioni recalled thinking. “I was very — how can say? … » Read

British conductor Kenneth Montgomery died on March 6 at age 80. Among his many music directorships: the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Opera Northern Ireland, the Ulster Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony, and the Dutch … » Read

After a 13-year run that has seen the 16-acre campus refreshed physically and LincInc programming changed radically, Katherine Farley will exit as board chair. A retired senior managing director of Tishman Speyer, and married to its founder Jerry … » Read

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s fifth annual Women in Classical Music Symposium, November 12-15, 2023, will honor violinist/educator Nicola Benedetti, hardly a stranger to the annual event and one of the world’s tireless … » Read

MILAN (AP)—Daniel Barenboim has canceled a piano recital at the Opera de Monte-Carlo due to the effects of a serious neurological condition, the opera house announced on Wednesday. Barenboim expressed his regret in a message to the … » Read

Italian conductor Diego Ceretta, 26, is the new chief conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana (ORT). He succeeds Daniele Rustioni, who stepped down in 2020 and  now takes the title of emeritus. Ceretta initially studied violin, graduating … » Read

By the second half of the 18 th -century in Great Britain, increasingly vocal critics opposed slavery and the trade in human beings. But British society continued to betray racist sentiments, and Blacks were well-advised to couch their critiques … » Read

The Covid pandemic’s impact on the classical music world was both collective and individual. Orchestras, opera companies, and other performing arts organizations lost millions of dollars of revenue and artists unable to perform faced often … » Read

During the height of the coronavirus pandemic in November 2020, when Vienna was shut down and people were allowed outside mainly to walk their dogs, conductor Christian Thielemann was stopped by a police officer in the Heldenplatz. “What … » Read

British conductor Daniel Harding is to be the next music director of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, starting in October of 2024. He succeeds Antonio Pappano, in the job since 2005 and currently in his final … » Read