MILAN (AP) — Milanese turned out in all their finery for La Scala’s Dec. 7 gala season opener of Verdi’s Macbeth in a fully seated theater, a welcome return after the pandemic made last year’s premiere a televised-only … » Read

Alexandros Papadiamantis’s novella, The Murderess enjoys seminal status in Greece where it has stood as a challenge to conventional socio-political thinking and the roles of church and state since its publication in 1903. Adapted by Giorgos … » Read

As of January 2022, Shawna Lucey will be the new general director and CEO at Opera San José (OSJ), succeeding Khori Dastoor, who assumes the same role at the Houston Grand Opera in January. With over 15 years of industry experience, Lucey … » Read

Jaap van Zweden led the New York Philharmonic last weekend in a program that included Dvorák's Seventh Symphony and Emanuel Ax playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G. With such crowd pleasers on offer, what better an occasion to … » Read

The Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), forced to shut down entirely for nearly a year during the pandemic, is awarding its musicians the organization’s own 2021 Harmony Award, given annually to performers who “embody the harmonious … » Read

Succeeding the much-heralded Ian Robertson, who retires presently after 35 years as director of the San Francisco Opera Chorus, is John Keene, the current head of the music staff and chorus master of the Seattle Opera. He starts remotely in … » Read

In a sign of a (very new) era of flexibility, the Metropolitan Opera has just inserted a new opera into its 2022-23 schedule. Following up on the unalloyed triumph of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones , which opened the current … » Read

French conductor Pierre Bleuse is to be the next music director of the Ensemble intercontemporain, effective in the 2023-24 season and succeeding Matthias Pintscher, in the job since 2013. Bleuse, 44, is the new chief conductor of the Odense … » Read

As Robert Spano moves from principal guest conductor to music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO) next August, he is to be succeeded in the former post by German conductor Kevin John Edusei, current music director of the Munich … » Read

Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth, the first woman to have her opera performed at the Vienna State Opera, has won the $100,000 Grawemeyer Award for the work Orlando. Commissioned by the State Opera, it is based on Virginia Woolf’s novel about … » Read