Lee Anne Myslewski [pictured] has been elected to serve as the new board chair of OPERA America through June 30, 2025, completing the term of Susan G. Marineau following her resignation due to health reasons. Myslewski, OPERA America’s vice … » Read

Giancarlo Guerrero, current music director of the Nashville Symphony, is to take the same post with the Sarasota (FL) Orchestra, first as designate, next season, then in the role officially as of fall 2025. The 55-year-old Nicaraguan native has … » Read

More longtime Chicago Symphony Orchestra players are retiring. While trombonist Jay Friedman will leave at the end of next season , percussionist James Ross and cellist Loren Brown will make their official exits this summer; Brown has in fact … » Read

HIGHLAND PARK, IL—The lecture-recital needle is a tough one to thread. Go too broad, and the lecturer risks condescending to listeners. Go too narrow, and the program ends up sounding like a paper talk at a musicology conference. Pianist … » Read

The Nashville Symphony has hired Jeff vom Saal as its chief operating officer (COO), effective in September. Vom Saal was for eight years the executive director of the Spokane (WA) Symphony, the most recent of a number of management positions … » Read

The Walla Walla (WA) Symphony, which traces its origins to 1907, has installed Dina Gilbert as its new music director, as of July 1. The successor to the late Yaacov Bergman, Gilbert, assistant conductor of the Montreal Symphony, first led her … » Read

SALZBURG—I wasn’t planning on seeing Don Giovanni , staged by Romeo Castellucci and conducted by Teodor Currentzis, but curiosity to watch a train wreck got the better of me, and I made a late hour decision to check out the first act … » Read

Eberhard Friedrich, 66, chorus master at the Bayreuth Festival for some 25 years, has resigned, one year prior to his anticipated retirement in 2025. The move is characterized by local media as “unnecessary,” or at the very least … » Read

Pianist Christopher O’ Riley, the longtime host of NPR’s famed From the Top , took on the Mount Everest of keyboard literature on August 18 at Brooklyn’s Bargemusic: J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book I, comprising the … » Read

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, which leads a kind of nomadic life playing across the state in five different venues, has announced a new, dedicated home base, scheduled for completion by Spring of 2026. The new, 550-seat facility is to be … » Read