Rachel Fine, executive director and CEO of the Los Angeles-based Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (The Wallis), is to hold the top administrative post at Yale Schwarzman Center (YSC), which the university defines as its "first-ever … » Read

The path to becoming a conductor can be long and arduous. In the U.S., undergraduate conducting programs don’t exist, so those interested in a podium career must pursue it after graduation and reckon with the fact that there is no set … » Read

Hans Graf, music director of the Singapore Symphony, has chosen Venezuelan conductor Rodolfo Barráez to be the orchestra’s next associate conductor. He succeeds Joshua Tan, in the job from 2013-2021. Based in Berlin, … » Read

Built in 1857, the Academy of Music was for many years home to the Philadelphia Orchestra and still hosts an array of events from Broadway shows and holiday standards like The Nutcracker to college graduations. But the years have not been kind to … » Read

Danni Gee, longtime dance curator for Central Park’s free outdoor festival SummerStage, has been named director of programming for the Joyce Theater, New York’s core dance venue and presenter of small/visiting troupes. Gee is a former … » Read

INNSBRUCK, Austria—Operas of clemency have a reputation for lame drama. Feats of magnanimity, besides being implausible, tend to strike modern audiences as propaganda for reinforcing the status quo. But the other side of the coin is that … » Read

It took only three days for 30 aspiring musicians, all inmates at San Quentin prison, to compose an hour of original music and present a concert for 100 of their colleagues. On Monday, Aug. 8, the group began working with three professional … » Read

The role of Salome is a familiar one for Swedish soprano Malin Byström, whose Aug. 14 performance in concert at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall won rapturous praise from Mark Brown, theater critic for The Daily Telegraph . Byström had … » Read

The Pittsburgh Symphony musicians have extended their current contract--$100,000 base pay (most earn more)—by one year, bringing them into the 2023-24 season. The extension calls for a two percent increase in salary and $1,000 in media … » Read

PORTLAND, OR--Portland’s newest opera company, OrpheusPDX, began its inaugural season on August 4 with Monteverde’s L’Orfeo, a new production by Chas Rader-Shieber deftly tempered with a bit of humor, adding a refreshing breeze … » Read