When he exits The New York Times obituaries desk on Friday and heads uptown to the Metropolitan Opera a few weeks later, Dan Wakin will be “going to the other side” after 40 years in journalism. The last 22 were at The Times, covering … » Read

La Maestra Competition in Paris, the second annual edition of which gets underway next week, has issued some interesting statistics on women conductors. Here are a few: There are 62 women working as permanent music directors or chief conductors … » Read

The London Symphony Orchestra has added the much-heralded Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan to its artistic team, in the newly created role of Associate Artist for a term of three years. In her new position, Hannigan will create her … » Read

Premiered in 1924, Leos Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen is the sweetest fruit of the Czech composer’s late harvest of operatic masterpieces. “A merry thing with a sad end,” was how the 70-year-old composer … » Read

Classical music generally gets treated like a red-headed stepchild by the Recording Academy, which each year bestows Grammy awards for a laundry list of musical genres. None of the classical awards are presented on the televised broadcast, and a … » Read

As the 14 semifinalists for the second annual La Maestra Competition prepare for the finals next week, starting March 3 in Paris, news of four conductor appointments arrives, two of them women.   Polish conductor Marta Gardolinsk a, a … » Read

The necessity of working from home during the pandemic has changed the way that many companies are operating, including London-based artist management firms, ranging in size from Askonas Holt and HarrisonParrott to smaller boutique firms such as … » Read

William Kraft, a key figure in the development of Los Angeles’s thriving new-music scene, died on February 12 at the age of 98. The cause was heart failure, reports The Los Angeles Times . Kraft was for 18 years the principal percussionist … » Read

Cynthia Harvey, artistic director of the American Ballet Theater’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School since 2016, will step down at the conclusion of the school year in May 2022. She was well-acquainted with the ABT before directing the … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO--In these cramped times of diminished expectations, high ambition is a cause for gratitude and anticipation. Everything about the opera …(Iphigenia) , from its curiously punctuated title to the mixed musical forces and … » Read