The Los Angeles based Colburn School, which has grown over the last 70 years from a community music school into a major conservatory, has announced that 26-year-old choreographer and former New York City Ballet dancer Silas Farley is to succeed … » Read

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.  –  After almost a year of not experiencing opera live and in person because of the coronavirus pandemic, to hear stars like Michael Fabiano, Latonia Moore, and Isabel Leonard in a semi-staged concert of La … » Read

British conductor Jonathan Nott has renewed his contract as music and artistic director of the Geneva-based Orchestre de la Suisse Romande as of September 1, 2021. This is no ordinary renewal for the 58-year-old maestro; the new agreement is … » Read

As has become the norm in these abnormal times, many presenters are announcing their programming with very short lead times, never quite knowing what will and won’t be possible amid Covid restrictions in their particular part of the world. … » Read

Buoyed by the success of its fall season, presented under an open-sided circus tent , the Atlanta Opera has announced a spring season that includes five live productions—two adaptations of iconic operas and three concerts. In keeping with … » Read

Longtime trustee of the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) A. Chase Anderson and his wife Josie have gifted $1mn to the institution’s endowment campaign. A scholarship named in their honor will underwrite all expenses for a conservatory … » Read

It’s over 20 years since Calixto Bieito outraged the British tabloids with his staging of Verdi’s Un Ballo in Mas c hera at English National Opera . Reports of 14 men sitting on the John in transparent cubicles had opera lovers … » Read

The Salzburg Festival will honor Riccardo Muti’s 80 th birthday this summer, as well as the 50 th anniversary of his Festival debut. “I’ve gone every year but one since I started in 1971,” he told Musical America when … » Read

The pandemic has bollixed the Oregon Bach Festival’s plans for the upcoming summer season. “The health trends and data are telling us to consider alternative ways of serving our community,” wrote Sabrina Madison-Cannon, Dean at … » Read

“It has nothing to do with whatever the Boston Symphony decides about Tanglewood this summer,” reports the Berkshire Eagle , but the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) will not operate live for the second summer in a row, … » Read