BAYREUTH, Germany—After last summer’s lost season, the Bayreuth Festival reopened with an audacious production of Der fliegende Höllander led by Oksana Lyniv of Urkania, the first woman ever to conduct here. With strict rules in … » Read

Julia Desbruslais has announced that she will step down as executive director of the London Mozart Players (LMP) at the end of 2021. She has been with the group since 1989 as a cellist, and assumed the executive position in 2016, two years after … » Read

The three artistic principals of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition have stepped down, in the words of the French periodical La Lettre du Musicien , “so that the competition… continues to live on.” Their departure is part of … » Read

Tom West, former chief advancement officer of the Los Angeles based American Film Institute, is the new executive director of the Atlanta Ballet. He succeeds Arturo Jacobus, who retired at the end of last season, leaving the company in fiscal … » Read

If history is any guide, one casualty of the Taliban’s stunning takeover of Afghanistan will be the presence of music in the life of the country’s people. Between 1996 and 2001, music was banned; performing, selling, or even listening … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — This time, Barry Manilow didn’t make it through the rain. Unlike the Grammy-winning recording artist’s 1980 hit, “I Made It Through Rain,” the superstar-laden “Homecoming Concert” in New … » Read

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Don Everly, one-half of the pioneering Everly Brothers whose harmonizing country rock hits impacted a generation of rock ‘n’ roll music, has died. He was 84. Everly died at his home in Nashville, … » Read

A 28-year-old music teacher from Valencia is putting women composers on the map—literally. “We’ve never given them the place they deserve in history,” said Sakira Ventura, the creator of an interactive map that features … » Read

Michael Morgan, longtime music director of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra with a hard-earned, sterling reputation as both powerful artistic communicator and a keen awareness of what an orchestra can be, died at Oakland Kaiser Hospital in … » Read

San Francisco Symphony Chorus Director Ragnar Bohlin has resigned as of this month, after 14 years in the job. He is an anti-vaxxer, as made clear from his Facebook posts, and, since the orchestra and indeed the city is demanding proof of … » Read