Carlo Rizzi, among the foremost international opera conductors, has renewed his contract as artistic director of Opera Rara through June 2025, the extension of a relationship that dates to 2019 and has been by all accounts  highly … » Read

According to its bankruptcy filing, the nonprofit board that ran the now-defunct San Antonio Symphony owes more than $10 million to the pension fund of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM). How much, if any, of this amount will ultimately … » Read

Kate Kammeyer is the new executive director of the Berkeley (CA) Symphony succeeding Jim Tibbs, who is retiring after three years in the job. Kammeyer is the former senior VP and general manager of the Rochester Philharmonic, as well as its … » Read

The Pittsburgh Festival Opera (PFO), the smaller of the city’s two opera companies, is gambling that its decision not to mount any complete productions this summer will ultimately lead to financial stability. The PFO is instead presenting … » Read

The finals of the 19 th International Singing Competition Neue Stimmen, June 26-30 in Gütersloh’s Stadthalle, have been won by Italian soprano Francesca Pia Vitale and Spanish baritone Carles Pachon, each of whom takes home 15,000 … » Read

LONDON (AP) — Peter Brook, a British theater and film director known for an influential and distinguished career which saw him garner worldwide acclaim, has died. He was 97. The two-time Tony Award winner, who had settled in France decades … » Read

Richard Taruskin, scholar, author, pedagogue, longtime faculty member of UC Berkeley, died Friday morning in an Oakland, CA, hospital at age 77. The cause was esophageal cancer. Author of the six-volume Oxford History of Western Music , among … » Read

LONDON--Given the high quality and stylistic daring of much of the music in Saverio Mercadante’s Il Proscritto ( The Exile ), it seems remarkable that this June 28 concert performance at London’s Barbican Centre was the opera’s … » Read

After stepping away from music entirely for over a decade, disenchanted with the scene, especially for black musicians, tenor Limmie Pulliam is back. With a vengeance. “That entrance, you have to nail it,” says the Missouri native. … » Read

The young conductor stepping in at the last moment to replace the ill maestro is the stuff of legends in the classical music world. One need look no further than Leonard Bernstein’s 1943 replacement of the ailing Bruno Walter for a prime … » Read