The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced the appointment of four new musicians as it begins the season. Marc Lachat is the new principal oboe, succeeding Ramon Ortega Quero, who left not long after he joined the orchestra in 2018. Lachat … » Read

The Ulster Orchestra has appointed Auveen Sands as its first female chief executive. She will assume the position, which has been held by Richard Wigley for more than six years, in October. Sands joined the orchestra as head of finance and … » Read

Pianist William Ransom is to succeed Christopher Rex as artistic director of the Amelia Island (GA) Chamber Music Festival. Rex, who founded the event in 2001, died last March, having retired from the Atlanta Symphony in 2018 after 39 years as … » Read

In its U.S. debut at Carnegie Hall, the exuberant Teatro Real Orchestra wasn’t leaving the stage until it was good and ready: With an already-generous program, the addition of two encores made the Sept. 15 concert unfurl beyond the … » Read

With the start of its season on Sept. 22, the leadership transition at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is complete. Nathalie Stutzmann is the new music director, replacing Robert Spano, who held the position for two decades. Joining her as … » Read

The Marriage of Figaro is essentially about the boundaries social class establishes and how people choose to challenge them. To relocate the opera’s action to British colonial India, as the San Jose Opera’s new production of … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway’s longest-running show, is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York. The musical — a fixture … » Read

Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici, full-time concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic for over 30 years, has left his position. In what the German Ministry of Culture describes as an amicable separation, he stepped down from the role at the end of … » Read

The Japan Art Association, under the honorary patronage of HIH Prince Hitachi, has announced its 2022 Praemium Imperiale Award winners as Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman, along with Chinese artist, activist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei, German … » Read

One of the people most important to the success of John Adams’s new opera Antony and Cleopatra is invisible to the audience. Before the curtain rises on every performance, Matthew Piatt climbs up a metal ladder under the stage of San … » Read