Carl St.Clair has announced his intention to step down as music director of California’s Pacific Symphony. The current plan is for him to make the move at the end of the 2023-24 season, marking the end of what will have been 34-year tenure. … » Read

Composer/clarinetist Derek Bermel is to step down as artistic director of the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) at the end of 2022, capping ten years in the position, plus a previous four as creative advisor. As his composer career continues to … » Read

CHICAGO—Barrie Kosky’s much-talked about, lovingly exuberant production of Fiddler on the Roof bounded into Chicago’s Lyric Opera House Saturday night. If downtown Chicago’s stately opera house were in Times Square and we … » Read

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