The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)has followed up a recently completed four-year grant to the Greek National Opera (GNO) with a new two-year award of €11,000,000 to support the company’s outreach efforts. The initial grant is widely … » 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

The cutthroat world of 19th-century Italian opera was no place for a woman, which makes the survival of Carolina Uccelli’s 1835 opera Anna di Resburgo all the more remarkable. Conductor Will Crutchfield, general director of Teatro Nuovo, … » Read

LONDON —Orlando is one of Handel’s finest Italian operas, full of good tunes and with a refreshingly simple plot offering excellent opportunities for five-star singers. Written in 1733 for the King's Theatre in London, a venue in … » Read

On June 27 reality tragically intruded on an evening devoted to fantasy—the Cincinnati Opera’s opening performance of Verdi’s La Traviata . As patrons were arriving 15 minutes before the curtain was to go up, a standoff between … » 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 30 Marin Alsop, director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival Philharmonic, combined her assemblage of musicians just beginning their careers with the Heritage Signature Chorale for a sold-out performance at the Washington … » 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

SAN FRANCISCO—With the symphony’s season clouded by Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen’s startling decision to depart in the middle of next year, at the conclusion of his five-year contract, this June 28 concert at Davies Hall … » Read

For at least the past century, the design of the piano keyboard has undergone few significant changes, partly from pure tradition and partly from a refusal to acknowledge that different-sized hands deserve different-sized keyboards. The website … » Read