Florian Wiegand, concert manager of the Salzburg Festival since 2012, has been announced by the mayor of Munich as the next Intendant of the Munich Philharmoniker in September 2025. He succeeds Paul Müller, who departs after 16 years. The … » Read

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