Doppelganger can be seen as director Claus Guth’s attempt to create an opera that Franz Schubert never wrote. In the program booklet for his creation, Guth laments that the composer’s actual operas, with their inadequate librettos, … » Read

For the next few months composer Jake Heggie is going to be a very busy man. Dead Man Walking , his breakout opera of 2000, opens the Metropolitan Opera’s season this evening. Across the Lincoln Center Plaza three nights later, The Elements … » Read

Over three days beginning on Sept. 22, Jonathon Heyward began his much-anticipated tenure as the 13 th music director for The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with a series of concerts for about 5,000 music lovers. Heyward is in many ways an … » Read

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