The Calgary Philharmonic has appointed Juliane Gallant as resident conductor starting next season. She joins Music Director Rune Bergmann and Associate Conductor Karl Hirzer in the artistic leadership of the 67-year-old ensemble. The New … » Read

MOSCOW—The live rounds of the 17 th International Tchaikovsky Competition opened on June 19 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with a gala performance by the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra and past laureates under the baton of Valery … » Read

The Brooklyn Academy of Music, at its height a breeding ground for richly innovative programming, has eliminated 26 positions, or 13 percent of its workforce, and reduced its programming for 2023-24. Its artistic director, David Binder, announced … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—Yannick Nézet-Séguin is remaking the Metropolitan Opera from the bottom up. When the 48-year-old conductor leans forward to extend his arms and emphasize vibrato or stretches high for a fortissimo during an … » Read

The Manchester (VT) Music Festival will have new leadership in place for its 50 th -anniversary season in the summer of 2024. As of October 1, 2023, Philip Setzer, violinist in the soon-to-retire Emerson String Quartet, takes the post of the … » Read

On June 30 EveR6, a human-like android robot, will join conductor Choi Soo-yeol on the podium of the National Orchestra of Korea for the country’s first robot-led musical performance. Created by the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology … » Read

For one hundred years the San Francisco Opera has been central to the city’s cultural life, a role celebrated with a gala concert at the War Memorial Opera House on June 6. The evening mixed sentiment with passionate music making, as vocal … » Read

CHICAGO—In April 1991 Georg Solti wrapped up his 22-year tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with two blockbuster programs: a concert version of Verdi’s complete Otello with a cast headed by Luciano Pavarotti … » Read

LONDON—On November 3, 1973, a 20-year-old Oxbridge organ scholar by the name of Peter Phillips conducted a group of lay clerks (professional church singers) and choral scholars in a concert of Renaissance music in St. Mary Magdalen's … » Read

Tulsa Opera has cancelled its two mainstage performances for 2023-24, The Pirates of Penzance in October and La Traviata in May. The announcement, coming on the heels of its 75 th- anniversary season, appeared on its website last week, along with … » Read