Amanda Robie has been promoted from managing director to executive director of the Saratoga Opera , a position that sees her working closely with Mary Birnbaum, general and artistic director.  A resident of Saratoga Springs, Robie has sung … » Read

Nicholas Hersh, onetime associate conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO), is to return as the first principal conductor of the BSO Academy, an annual week-long program for adults of rehearsals, performances, and workshops alongside … » Read

Asmik Grigorian, the Lithuanian soprano who made a stunning debut at the Metropolitan Opera last spring as Madama Butterfly , returned to New York on Dec. 12 with an all-Russian program of songs by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff in Zankel Hall, … » Read

Anyone seeking evidence of the affirming power of music need look no further than the number of musicians who continue to play for John Eliot Gardiner, despite past instances of his abusive behavior. In the words of Marten Root, a 68-year-old … » Read

Greek conductor Elisa Gogou is to become general music director of the Lower Bavaria State Theater in 2026, succeeding Basil Coleman. Gogou, 50, has been serving as 1 st Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at the Anhaltisches Theater … » Read

Bloomberg Philanthropies (BP) has dramatically expanded the number of institutions—from 50 to 200—benefitting from its Digital Accelerator Program, which provides funding and management training to improve essential digital … » Read

After more than a year, the Cincinnati Ballet has named a new permanent artistic director, former principal dancer Cervilio Miguel Amador, interim artistic director since Jodie Gates’s abrupt departure in September 2023 after just 14 … » Read

Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España (OCNE) has named Kent Nagano to succeed David Afkham as its chief conductor and artistic director ( director titular y artístico ) as of September 2026, when Afkham, in the job seven years, makes … » Read

Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou’s December 12 recital, at the Park Avenue Armory’s Veterans Room, lasted just 75 intermission-less minutes but was so thoroughly satisfying that it felt like the most sumptuous of feasts. The … » Read

Recent New York appearances by the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra offered Alex Ross, The New Yorker’s classical music critic, an opportunity to compare and contrast the two ensembles and their lustrous conductors. … » Read