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

It was only in July that the Zurich Opera renewed Andreas Homoki’s contract as intendant through 2025, but already waiting in the wings to succeed him is Matthias Schulz, the current director of Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden, … » Read

The Music Academy of the West has selected the Slovenian conductor and composer Daniela Candillari as the first principal opera conductor of its annual summer festival. Her three-year appointment extends through 2024, with responsibility for … » Read

London-based American Ryan Bancroft, who last month was given the 2021 Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor Award, has landed a new job. He is to be chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (RSPO) as of 2023-24; in the … » Read

LONDON--Like many exiled composers, Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) has dropped off the radar since his death half a century ago, a victim perhaps of a national tendency to champion our own while the multinationals slip through the cracks. A Spanish … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center Honors returned to tradition this year. The lifetime achievement awards for artistic excellence were presented Sunday night in a gala at the Kennedy Center’s main opera house after the coronavirus … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)--We’re so rife with reboots and remakes today that it can take a moment to gauge just what Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is. It isn’t a papered-over modernizing or a thinly disguised retread. It’s a feat … » Read