On June 4, 5, and 6, the Berlin Philharmonic will honor the late Mariss Jansons, who died on Dec. 1. The Latvian maestro, an honorary member of the orchestra, had been scheduled to conduct on those dates. “Mariss Jansons . . . was a highly … » Read

Patricia Barretto, president and CEO of Chicago’s Harris Theater, has died. The theater reports the cause was breast cancer. Ms. Barretto was 45 and had been in the job since 2017 , having worked her way up from VP of sales and marketing in … » Read

Composer/conductor John Adams is to be the music director for the 2021 Ojai Festival (June 10-13, 2021), the event’s official 75 th anniversary and Adams’s second term as music director (his first was in 1993). He replaces the … » Read

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Recording Academy on Monday fired Deborah Dugan, its former president who called into question the integrity of the Grammy Awards nominations process and said she was sexually harassed by a top lawyer for the … » Read

Any thought that Recording Academy President/CEO Deborah Dugan might leave quietly after being fired on March 2, evaporated one day later, when her attorneys launched a barrage of new allegations against the organization. Placed on administrative … » Read

BOSTON--Unlikely as it seems, Mitch McConnell launched a feminist rallying cry. “Nevertheless, she persisted,” he said sarcastically of Elizabeth Warren, as she tried to read a letter by Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor. (The … » Read

During his annual visit to the Royal College of Music (RCM), of which he has been President for 27 years, HRH The Prince of Wales conferred honors on several luminaries of the international music world. The musicians honored include conductor and … » Read

Canadian director François Girard came to prominence at the Metropolitan Opera as the result of a single production,  Parsifal,  in 2013. Primarily known for his work in film, Girard has had little experience in other opera … » Read

The Washington National Opera is further distancing itself from its former artistic director by dropping his name from its young artist program, “in light of recent developments.” Rather than Domingo-Cafritz, it will now be call the … » Read

LOS ANGELES—Mounting an opera is complicated, and Yuval Sharon’s company The Industry makes it even more so, on purpose. Sweet Land , its latest attempt to push out the walls of the opera house and sprawl into the surrounding … » Read