Daniel Hope is to become the Intendant and artistic director of Gstaad Menuhin Festival and Academy as of November 1, 2025. He succeeds Christoph Müller, in the position for 24 years. A violinist of international distinction, Hope is … » Read

Opera Carolina has turned to the Charlotte business community for its new general director. Dr. Shanté Williams will join the company on July 1, succeeding James Meena, who has held the dual titles of general and artistic director since … » Read

The world premiere of The Comet / Poppea on June 21 at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles demonstrated once again that Yuval Sharon is one of opera’s most imaginative directors. The 80-minute production melded a new score by … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—A year after Kaija Saariaho’s death at the age of 70, her final opera, Innocence , received its much-anticipated American debut this month at San Francisco Opera. The work’s reputation as a harrowing and innovative … » Read

Over the past few weeks Jaap van Zweden has been busy concluding his concurrent tenures as music director of both the New York and Hong Kong philharmonic orchestras. His final concerts in New York in May precede a summer tour of China with the … » Read

Edwin Outwater, music director of the San Francisco Conservatory since 2020 , is to be principal guest conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra effective September 1, alongside Chief Conductor Anna Maria Helsing. He first led the group in 2022 when … » Read

In the coming weeks, musicians of the Welsh National Opera who are members of the Musicians’ Union will be voting on whether to undertake labor action against plans to make the orchestra part-time and cut pay by 15 percent. “This is a … » Read

Ominous talk of a potential spending squeeze is causing alarm among Scotland’s cultural institutions, which are already contending with ten years of standstill funding in the face of Brexit, the pandemic, inflation, and a cost-of-living … » Read

Teng Li, current principal viola of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is to take the same post with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO). She won the audition in May of 2023, and was officially offered the job the following September by Riccardo … » Read

When John Adams’s Girls of the Golden West  premiered in November 2017, a great deal of ink was spilt arguing about form and function. Did Peter Sellars’s libretto, culled from diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and mining … » Read