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

Large in spirit as well as form, mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton doesn’t mince words when it comes to her shifting career goals and her general approach to life. “What I do see already happening, and am really interested in being a part … » Read

COVID-19 continues its merciless march: The latest casualty is Simon Rattle, who has tested positive and so cancelled all concerts as he recovers at home with mild symptoms. Impacted as a result are programs with the London Symphony Orchestra (of … » Read

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded American Rescue Plan (ARP) grants totaling $20.2 million to 66 local arts agencies for subgrants to assist arts and cultural organizations in recovering from the pandemic. Grant awards of … » Read

The Monteux School and Music Festival, the six-week conductor-intensive founded by legendary maestro Pierre Monteux in 1943, has a new executive director in Stan Renard , an alumnus of the school. Renard succeeds Marc C. Thayer, in the job … » Read

On Dec. 2, the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation announced donations of $100mn each to arts and cultural institutions in western New York and southeast Michigan. Wilson established the $1.2bn foundation in 2014 to fund activities in the Buffalo … » Read