Vanessa Reed, president and CEO of New Music USA, will return to the U.K to take the position of chief executive of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society (RLPS) as of June 2. She succeeds Michael Eaken, who exits in March after 16 years in the … » Read

This summer Marin Alsop will join the 10 th season of Prague Summer Nights: Young Artists Music Festival as distinguished guest conductor. The event, held in Vienna in 2025, offers young opera singers, instrumentalists, and conductors performance … » Read

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen has joined the roster at Intermusica for European management; Étude Artists provides general management for the American countertenor. Highly acclaimed for his work on both recital and opera stages,  he last … » Read

It’s no surprise but nonetheless disheartening to learn that, among victims of the current White House Administration’s directives, the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities (PCAH), which Biden resuscitated after his … » Read

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The reputation of Vanessa has gone through some rocky times. The Samuel Barber/Gian Carlo Menotti opera, the first new work of Rudolf Bing’s Metropolitan Opera intendancy, was generally lauded at its 1958 world … » Read

On Sept. 25 the Philadelphia Orchestra will kick off its 125 th season with Yuja Wang playing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G in Marian Anderson Hall to commemorate the 150 th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The orchestra’s … » Read

BOSTON—Imagine an opera with a gorgeous score by Wagner, Mahler, Puccini, Zemlinsky, Richard and Johann Strauss, and Erich Korngold, whose sweeping romantic soundtracks for The Adventures of Robin Hood and Anthony Adverse (among many … » Read

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) has extended Music Director Kazuki Yamada’s contract for two years, through the end of the 2028-29 season. He assumed the post in April of 2023, after having served as guest conductor since … » Read

Natalie Johnsonius Neubert, recent executive director of the Berkshire Music School, is to be president and CEO of the Berkshire Opera Festival, coming up on its tenth anniversary season next summer. She succeeds Abigail Rollins, who served as … » Read

Kari Watson claims to be tired, but you wouldn’t guess it, apart from the sheepish acknowledgment and an occasional yawn. In a conversation at a café on Chicago’s West Side, Watson confessed to being up late copying scores for … » Read