Michelle Williams, head of casting for the English National Opera since 2016, is to be the new director of artistic administration for the Garsington Opera as of next September. She succeeds Laura Canning, the new general director and CEO of … » Read

Some businesses continue to weaponize classical music, using it to deter loiterers and in at least one case, antagonizing the neighborhood in the process. A resident of a San Francisco apartment building adjacent to a Safeway supermarket reports … » Read

SAN FRAISCO (AP)—Part fairy tale, part psychodrama, Richard Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) calls for three big-voiced sopranos who can do justice to a long and difficult score. That’s one reason … » Read

LONDON—The years 1851-53 found Verdi in a hot vein of inspiration. Rigoletto and La traviata are indelible masterpieces in which Bel Canto and ardent romance merge into a potent mode of operatic expression; but what of Il trovatore ? Once … » Read

The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra (WVSO), now in its 85 th year, has hired American conductor Maurice Cohn as its 11 th music director, effective immediately. He arrives after a two-year search, which brought six finalists to conduct as … » Read

Milwaukee’s Marcus Performing Arts Center (MPAC) has hired Kevin Giglinto, current senior VP for marketing and strategy at the Kennedy Center, to be its president and CEO, effective in late July. He succeeds  Kendra Whitlock Ingram, in … » Read

While the unceremonious exiling of English National Opera to the provinces by Arts Council England appears to be a fait accompli, the decision continues to draw heavy fire. Jonathan Sumption, a former Supreme Court justice and, until his … » Read

From August 26 to September 4, the Metropolitan Opera’s Summer HD Festival will offer ten free screenings, with 2,500 seats available each evening on the plaza, and no tickets required. There are no rain dates. The annual festival previews … » Read

LONDON—Founded in 1989 by impresario Leonard Ingrams, Garsington Opera has a well-earned reputation as one of the U.K.’s savviest summer opera festivals. Relocating in 2011 to the grounds of Wormsley Park in the lush Oxfordshire … » Read

American conductor Roderick Cox [pictured] has joined the roster of HarrisonParrott. Cox won the Solti Conducting Award in 2018 and has since gone on to lead most of the major American ensembles; now based in Berlin, he has guest conducted that … » Read