Stephan Zilias (pictured), Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, has been appointed general music director of the Hannover State Opera, starting next fall. He succeeds Ivan Repušic, now music director of the Munich Radio Orchestra. … » Read

Radio New Zealand (RNZ) has beat a hasty retreat from plans announced last week to remove Concert , its classical music broadcast, from its FM frequency and replace it with youth-oriented programming . Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admitted to … » Read

Simon Woods, who recently resigned as president and CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is to be interim executive director of the Grand Teton Music Festival, as of February 24. He succeeds Andrew Palmer Todd, who resigned under pressure after … » Read

Two years from now the New York Philharmonic will be an orchestra on the move, literally, as the reconstruction of David Geffen formerly Avery Fisher formerly Philharmonic hall gets underway. In the meantime, it continues its forward momentum … » Read

Forget Beethoven’s 250th birthday, this year’s most inspirational anniversary is the centenary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment (“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by … » Read

Canadian virtuoso Angela Hewitt lost her “best friend” when her one-of-a-kind F278 Fazioli piano was dropped by movers. “I hope my piano will be happy in piano heaven,” she says, describing the handmade instrument as … » Read

The director of a French ballet has been sacked for getting rid of a dancer after she had a baby, the French culture ministry confirmed Friday. Unions had called for Greek-born Yorgos Loukos to go after he lost his appeal over discrimination … » Read

Sweden’s annual Polar Music Prize, worth one million Swedish Kronor (US $110,000) for each recipient, this year goes to soprano Anna Netrebko and pop songwriter Diane Warren. Founded in 1989 and derived from an endowment left by the late … » Read

LOS ANGELES – Even for an organization that routinely shoots for the new and unusual, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2017 Reykjavik Festival was really out there, a gamble that music from remote Iceland would find an audience in … » Read

Carlos Kalmar will step down as music director of the Oregon Symphony at the end of the 2020-21 season. He will have been in the job 18 years and is credited with bringing the orchestra to a higher artistic standard than when he arrived. He … » Read