LONDON—Katie Mitchell is known for her frequently revelatory radical Feminist revisions of the operatic canon, but in the case of Janácek’s The Makropulos Case she has staged an all-out intervention. Last week, the British … » Read

The Royal Opera’s first-time staging of Janácek’s The Makropulos Case this November represents the swan song for noted director Katie Mitchell, who has announced her retirement from opera “because,” she tells The … » Read

Dr. David M. Greenberg will join the University of Rochester’s Eastman Performing Arts Medicine (EPAM), a joint venture of the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, as the … » Read

Former Grant Park Concerts General Manager Richard Bass, whose career as a musician, orchestra manager, artist representative, and nonprofit fundraising executive spanned more than six decades, passed away on October 5, 2025, at the age of 92 in … » Read

Valerie Kahler assumed her new role as host of Performance Today this week, as Fred Child, in the job 25 years, stepped down. Heard on hundreds of public radio stations nationwide, Performance Today offers concert recordings, highlights from new … » Read

Native New Yorker James Gaffigan, 46, is to be the next music director of the Houston Grand Opera. Patrick Summers, artistic and music director since 1968, announced last year at this time that he would be stepping down at the end of the current … » Read

LONDON —Dead Man Walking is never a comfortable evening in the theatre—nor should it be. Jake Heggie’s opera, premiered in San Francisco in 2000, asks difficult questions and refuses easy answers. But in doing so, it achieves … » Read

Music publisher Boosey & Hawkes has announced a major leadership transition. In June 2026, Janis Susskind OBE will conclude her 13-year tenure as managing director after 46 years with the company. Senior VP Steven Lankenau, with B&H for … » Read

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) has extended Nathalie Stutzmann’s term as music director through 2028-2029. The current season is her fourth in the role. Among other changes needing to be made, she has hired 17 new musicians, thereby … » Read

Beginning in September 2026, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla will become the principal guest conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for a three-year term, joining Jaap van Zweden as he becomes music director. She will develop original … » Read