The Met Opera Orchestra is welcoming three new members as the season opens. Hannah Cope Johnson succeeds Emmanuel Ceysson as principal harp, arriving after a brief stint with the Sarasota Orchestra following graduate studies at the New England … » Read

The Boston-based White Snake Projects and its founder Cerise Lim Jacobs have a well-established reputation for cutting-edge ventures , so their recent performances of Monkey: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable raised expectations on the part of a critic … » Read

Mumbai-born Priti Gandhi is the new associate director of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. She succeeds Brady Walsh, who left the job in August. Gandhi comes to the Met after serving as artistic director of the Portland Opera for just … » Read

The biennial Besançon International Conductors competition concluded Saturday, with 25-year-old Frenchman Swann Van Rechem emerging as winner of the Grand Prix, as well as the audience and orchestra prizes. He receives 12,000 euros plus … » Read

Alfrelynn Roberts has joined the Portland (OR) Opera as director of artistic planning and operations; she comes to Portland from Fort Worth Opera, where she was associate artistic director & chorus master from 2018-2023. Roberts succeeds … » Read

On Sept. 21 the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) filed for bankruptcy four days after canceling the 2023-24 season and a number of related activities, including its youth orchestra. The organization’s website also said the board of … » Read

Three of life’s certainties are death, taxes, and the assurance that a string player will eventually have their instrument (and maybe themselves) denied boarding for an airline flight. Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and violinist Mihaela Martin … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Jake Heggie recalls that after Dead Man Walking premiered in San Francisco in 2000, the opera, his first, was quickly taken up by other companies, but there was not even a whisper of possibility that the Metropolitan Opera … » Read

After nearly three decades as general director of Opera North, Richard Mantle has announced he will step down this December. He will leave behind a company much improved by his presence. After postings at English National Opera, Scottish Opera, … » Read

On Sept. 18 New York City Mayor Eric Adams convened the first meeting of the Live Performance Industry Council, a group of 52 representatives from the theater, music, and dance industries; the city’s arenas, cultural institutions, unions, … » Read