As Robert Spano moves from principal guest conductor to music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO) next August, he is to be succeeded in the former post by German conductor Kevin John Edusei, current music director of the Munich … » Read

Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth, the first woman to have her opera performed at the Vienna State Opera, has won the $100,000 Grawemeyer Award for the work Orlando. Commissioned by the State Opera, it is based on Virginia Woolf’s novel about … » Read

It was only in July that the Zurich Opera renewed Andreas Homoki’s contract as intendant through 2025, but already waiting in the wings to succeed him is Matthias Schulz, the current director of Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden, … » Read

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