NEW ORLEANS (AP)—Branford Marsalis, the jazz saxophonist and composer whose career includes movie scores, Grammy-winning recordings, and a stint as the leader of The Tonight Show band, is taking on a new job in his hometown of New Orleans. … » Read

The past year ended on a much happier note for the BBC Singers than it began. In early March the BBC announced that the choral group would be disbanded in order to enable the media giant to invest “more widely in the future of choral … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—The Los Angeles Opera has scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay next fall because of finances. The work will instead open with a student cast at Indiana … » Read

BOSTON—The primary hero of the BSO’s January 25 th performance of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is the composer himself. His second of only two operas (the first was his surrealist comedy, The Nose ) is a circus of … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—When concertgoers made their way into the main entrance of Davies Symphony Hall on Friday, January 26, they did so via MTT Way , the newly named stretch of Grove Street that honors the San Francisco Symphony’s longtime … » Read

The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) has announced several new appointments to its artistic leadership team, chief among which is Nina Yoshida Nelsen as artistic director. She succeeds Esther Nelson, who until March 2021 held the position of general and … » Read

In late March 2024 John Kilkenny will join the New York Youth Symphony (NYYS) as executive director, succeeding Shauna Quill, who was in the position for 12 years. Kilkenny joins the NYYS from the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera and the Sewanee … » Read

The Tom Wilhelmsen Foundation has made a NOK 10 million ($960,000) gift to the Queen Sonja Singing Competition. Established in 1988, the biennial Norwegian competition provides an arena for aspiring singers from Norway and around the world to … » Read

Capping its annual conference, titled this year “Amplify,” the Sphinx Organization presented the finals of its senior division competition on January 27 in Detroit’s Fisher Music Center. Taking the $50,000 Robert Frederick … » Read

Singers and musicians at one of the UK's leading opera companies have called off a strike over pay and conditions, the performing arts union Equity said. Members of the English National Opera (ENO) chorus and orchestra had been due to walk out on … » Read