Canadian conductor Tania Miller, longtime music director of Canada's Victoria Symphony, now emerita, is to serve as interim principal conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School. She takes the job at the invitation of … » Read

PORTLAND, OR--Based on an ancient love story, Dido Reimagined , a new monodrama by Pulitzer-prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, received a thought-provoking performance from Dawn Upshaw and the Brentano … » Read

Plans to shutter the State Theater at Melbourne’s Arts Center have forced Opera Australia (OA) and the Australian Ballet to scramble to find alternative venues for nearly three years. The State Theater is scheduled to close around Easter in … » Read

The introduction of a new production of the Ring cycle at Bayreuth is always an occasion for comment and criticism. The premiere of Das Rheingold on July 31 led Martin Kettle of The Guardian to wonder, “Who knew?” Who knew, he asks, … » Read

Teodor Currentzis, whose longtime ensemble MusicAeterna has come under heavy criticism for its links to a state-owned Russian bank, has announced the formation of a new international ensemble called Utopia. It is to be financed by Kunst und … » Read

LONDON—Opera Holland Park has a reputation as an operatic lifesaver, resuscitating the neglected, and even at times resurrecting the dead. Its double bill of Delius’s scarcely heard of, let alone heard Margot la Rouge and … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—Charles Jennens’s Biblically based libretto for Handel’s 1745 oratorio Belshazzar stakes out its agenda in straightforward terms. Held captive in Babylon by the title character, the Judeans are freed by Cyrus the … » Read

Sheldon Artists has signed several new conductors for North American management, two of whom were previously self-managed and one who has a European-based general manager but will be represented Stateside by Sheldon. Among the former group is … » Read

Competition winners rarely elicit the kind of excitement these days that once attended the reception of legends like Vladimir Ashkenazy, Martha Argerich, or Van Cliburn. Often members of the merely “loud and fast” … » Read

SEATTLE—A gripping performance of the Verdi Requiem last month not only served as the Seattle Symphony’s (SSO) season finale but drew a double bar over a year marked by turbulent change. Thomas Dausgaard’s abrupt resignation as … » Read