SAN FRANCISCO—The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra brought their A game to San Francisco on October 16. In a smartly conceived, brilliantly played bill consisting primarily of works by English composers, the evening began and ended on … » Read

Baptiste Charroing [pictured], current director of production at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, has been appointed director general designate of the theater, set to succeed Michel Franck in 2025, now in his third term in the … » Read

Opera Europa has selected Karen Stone to become the new director of the Brussels-based service organization as of Jan 1, 2023. She succeeds Nicholas Payne, in the position for 19 years. Stone, who recently retired after 13 years as Intendantin at … » Read

Every few months yet another incident reminds classical musicians that buying an airline ticket is no guarantee that they will be able to show up with their instrument for a scheduled concert. On Oct. 13, 2022, cellist Santiago … » Read

The Philadelphia Orchestra has cancelled its tour of China under Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, part of a three-week trip in May planned in commemoration of its landmark 1973 visit there, a first for an American orchestra. … » Read

Stuart Murphy, the ofttimes controversial CEO of the English National Opera (ENO) since 2018 , has announced he plans to leave the company in September 2023. While a postmortem of his tenure awaits the judgment of others, Murphy pointed to the … » Read

LOS ANGELES – At last, a fully dedicated Pan American music concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic—Sunday afternoon (Oct. 16) at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Launched last season, the Pan-American Music Initiative is a five-year … » Read

The paucity of Black conductors and music directors of American orchestras remains one of the major issues for the classical music world. In the most recent (2016) survey by the League of American Orchestras of 170 members, only 2.4 percent of … » Read

Over the past five years, enrollment at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University has grown by 24 percent. This fall’s student body—760 musicians and dancers hailing from 44 states and more than 30 countries—is … » Read

Geoff Nuttall, founding first-violinist of the St. Lawrence String Quartet and director of chamber music for the Spoleto Festival USA, died today at the age of 56. The cause was cancer, according to a statement from his colleagues in the … » Read