Joséphine Korda is to become the Female Conductor Trainee at Opera North for the 2022-23 season. The nine-week training fellowship, which she will undertake while also studying for her masters at the Royal Northern College of Music in … » Read

MADRID (Reuters) - Opera star Placido Domingo faced new accusations of sexual harassment from a fellow Spanish singer in a television program broadcast on Sunday, three years after such claims prompted an apology and curtailed his career. In a … » Read

LONDON—Simon Rattle is on record as saying that his inspiration to become an opera conductor came from the work of Czech composer Leoš Janácek. It’s not surprising then that this January 11 concert performance of Katya … » Read

As The Shed approaches its fourth anniversary , a leadership transition designed to strengthen both its artistic vision and its management is underway. Alex Poots, founding artistic director and chief executive, is setting aside the latter … » Read

Juan José Escalante, executive director of the National Dance Institute (NDI), a noted arts-education program, is to be the new executive director of the Miami City Ballet as of February 6. He succeeds Tania Castroverde Moskalenko, who … » Read

The challenges confronting the Metropolitan Opera are scarcely a secret. A shrinking subscriber base, swaths of empty seats for standard repertoire, a stretched donor base, and strait-jacket-like union contracts all pose threats to the long-term … » Read

KMFA Classical, an independent public classical radio station in Austin, TX, has appointed George Preston as its new CEO. Preston arrives after serving for the last three years as VP of radio and GM of WFMT, Chicago , a high-profile classical … » Read

Plunked down right in the middle of the Prototype Festival’s usually ultra-serious fare of experimental chamber opera came the first night, on Tuesday, of the latest revival of Donizetti’s frothy charmer L’Elisir d’amore … » Read

The League of American Orchestras has announced the creation of the Anne Parsons Leadership Program, a three-year pilot designed to mentor women and non-binary orchestra professionals in their career progression. “Anne Parsons was an … » Read

Becoming a conductor is an expensive proposition, not least because an aspiring maestro must eventually pay to practice in front of professional musicians. Last June, a small group of them, interested in acquiring conducting skills, gathered in a … » Read