The San Diego Opera (SDO) has weathered the pandemic in fine form, announcing a modest surplus of less than $10,000 for the 2021 fiscal year and sporting the largest endowment—$8.8mn—in the company’s 56-year history. At … » Read

The announcement that the Milanese maestro Daniele Gatti has been named music director of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (MMF) is further proof that Italians take the #metoo movement lightly, if at all. He succeeds Zubin Mehta at MMF, as Mehta … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — “Now I will conduct a short excerpt from Ravel’s Bolero , the Metropolitan Opera’s future music director announces proudly. It’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin, but he’s not the figure … » Read

We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera reached an agreement on a labor contract with its locked-out stagehands, the second of three major deals needed to resume performances in September following the pandemic. The agreement was reached … » Read

Moving to the spring and held for the second time virtually, Concert Artists Guild’ s annual competition concluded on June 9 by awarding grand prizes to four recipients: the Chromic Duo [pictured], a New York-based electronic toy-piano duo … » Read

After less than two years, Kelly Tweeddale is out as executive director of the San Francisco Ballet as of June 28. Lured from the Vancouver Symphony in September 2019, she had previously worked for the Seattle Opera and the Cleveland Orchestra, … » Read

Performance Santa Fe, a presenter of high-profile classical music artists, along with dance and other disciplines, has named Amy Iwano as its executive director. She steps into the new role in September, succeeding Chad Hilligus, who left last … » Read

As the pandemic (hopefully) recedes into the background, Esa-Pekka Salonen has released plans for his first full season as music director of the San Francisco Symphony. Eschewing a single slogan for his programming ideas, Salonen instead cites … » Read

Louis Andriessen, among the most important compositional voices of modern times, died this morning in Weesp, near Amsterdam. He was 82. As original as he was controversial, Andriessen is said to have influenced an entire generation of composers. … » Read