LONDON--After years of relative neglect, Baroque opera has made a triumphant return to the Royal Opera House with two very different new shows opening within days of each other. Katie Mitchell’s spectacular interpretation of Handel’s … » Read

Gina Duncan, who left the Brooklyn Academy of Music in September 2020 to become producing director at the Sundance Institute, is returning to BAM as its new president. “We saw Gina’s extraordinary leadership skills firsthand during … » Read

A new study from UNESCO, the United Nation’s cultural agency, reports that ten million jobs in the creative industries have been lost to the pandemic. At the same time, increasing digitization of cultural content has made it harder for … » Read

The Curtis Institute of Music and New England Conservatory have both announced recent alumni additions to their studio faculties. At Curtis, Erin Keefe and Benjamin Beilman will start next fall, offering individual lessons and chamber/orchestral … » Read

Claire Spencer, CEO of Arts Center Melbourne (ACM), is to become the first ever CEO of the Barbican Center, which claims to be the largest performing arts and conference center in Europe. She succeeds Nicholas Kenyon, who stepped down last … » Read

Ryan Wigglesworth has been selected to assume the position of chief conductor for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) as of September. He succeeds Thomas Dausgaard, in the post for six years, and recently departed from the Seattle … » Read

Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, active on the world’s major opera stages and a Grammy-winning recording artist, is moving on to “the next stage of [her] career,” as she puts it, changing to Promethean Artists for worldwide general … » Read

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's president on Tuesday bestowed the country's highest honor on British conductor Simon Rattle, the former head of the Berlin Philharmonic who is set to take a new job in Munich next year. President Frank-Walter … » Read

The San Francisco Opera’s 99th Season continues at the War Memorial Opera House between June 4 and July 3 with three offerings. First up is a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni , which is set in a post-apocalyptic future amid the … » Read

As musical life continues on the obstacle-ridden road to recovery, a number of orchestras have recently announced new players. The Pittsburgh Symphony will have two new violists as of next spring. Sean Juhl, who is currently working on his BM … » Read