Lyric Opera of Chicago General Director, President, and CEO Anthony Freud has said he will retire at the end of the current season. He will have been in the job 13 years. "Having been a general director for 30 years leading opera companies on … » Read

Orchestras here and abroad are adding new musicians to their ranks as the new season is set to begin. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Dr. Mark Almond joins the CSO as principal horn from San Francisco, where he was an associate principal for both … » Read

The Boston Baroque, approaching is 50 th -anniversary season in 2023-24, has appointed Sarah Radcliffe-Marrs [pictured] as its next executive director, as of November 1st.  She succeeds Jennifer Ritvo Hughes,  who in July was appointed … » Read

Nobody will tell you why Apple bought Bis Records , asserts author and music historian Ted Gioia, because “it’s an ugly reason.” At first blush, the purchase of the 50-year-old Swedish label seems at odds with Apple’s past … » Read

When Frenchman Stephane Lissner learned that he would be fired from his job as superintendent and artistic director of the San Carlo Opera because of a new law mandating foreign heads of opera houses to retire at age 70, he vowed to challenge the … » Read

Players and management at the Philadelphia Orchestra appear to have reached an impasse. On Sept. 10, the same day the old contract expired, 85 musicians rejected what the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc. (POKC) called its “best … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater have commissioned 42-year-old  Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets to write an opera  about Ukrainian mothers going into Russia to rescue their forcibly detained … » Read

When two young climate protesters representing Renovate Switzerland interrupted a performance by the Bavarian State Orchestra at the Lucerne Festival on Sept. 8, conductor Vladimir Jurowski took the high road, urging the audience to let them … » Read

A survey by the U.K. Musicians’ Union and the charity Help Musicians of nearly 6,000 working British musicians—87 percent of whom were white—indicates that nearly half earn less than £14,000 ($17,460) a year. This is … » Read

With the arrival of Gustavo Dudamel as music and artistic director designate, two years hence, the New York Philharmonic receives its largest-ever single endowment gift: $40 million from Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang.  Mr. Tang is the … » Read