Peter Kjome, no doubt exhausted after what will have been five years of  wrestling with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s pre-pandemic near demise, will step down when his contract as president and CEO ends in January 2022. He exits … » 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

Christa Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades, died at her home in Klosterneuburg, Austria. She was 94, according to the Associated Press. Her death was … » Read

The Berlin Symphony has named Hansjörg Schellenberger as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2021-22 season. He succeeds Lior Shambadal, in the job for 22 years, from 1997-2019. Schellenberger, 72, was principal oboe of the Berlin … » Read

On April 23, an adaptation of The Barber of Seville announced the return to live performance by the San Francisco Opera. The experience, writes Joshua Kosman for the San Francisco Chronicle , “felt like awakening from a fever dream.” … » Read

Researchers at the University of Montreal have been working with some 50 faculty members and advanced students to ascertain which forearm muscles are the most vulnerable to the stress and fatigue that can cause tendonitis and other malignancies. … » Read

When Lois Kirschenbaum died late last month, she left a mountain of opera memorabilia gathered over a half century spent frequenting the stage door at the Metropolitan Opera and other New York concert halls. “It’s a musical time … » Read

LONDON--It is 72 years since George Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel , his vision of a dystopian future where mass surveillance kept civilians under the strict control of an all-powerful state. When composer Mihkel Kerem read it, he … » Read

As of Thursday, April 22, two weeks after the Small Business Administration (SBA) was to begin processing applications from independent music venues and theaters for $16bn in federal pandemic relief, the agency’s website is still not … » Read

In what European media describe as a “glittering gala,” Plácido Domingo shared the stage of the Bolshoi Theater earlier this week with a number of high profile artists as well as past winners of his Operalia competition. The … » Read