The Detroit Symphony has identified its next music director as Italian conductor Jader Bignamini. Leading the orchestra’s concerts this weekend and on several other occasions this season, he takes the title in earnest the 2020-21 season, … » Read

Deborah Dugan is indeed “stepping up.” The embattled CEO of the Recording Academy, put on  administrative leave last week amid claims of bullying and a “formal allegation of misconduct," has filed her suit against the … » Read

In 2008, when Opera San José’s resident soprano walked out in mid-season, Khori Dastoor stepped in at the last minute to take over major roles in four remarkably different operas— Lucia di Lammermoor , Rigoletto , The Magic … » Read

Netflix has nabbed the rights to Bradley Cooper’s film about the iconic Leonard Bernstein. Cooper, who co-wrote the script, will star in, direct, and co-produce the motion picture. Other producers involved include a veritable Hollywood … » Read

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO) has tapped Peter Biggs as acting chief executive, succeeding Christopher Blake, who retired at the end of 2019. In the position for eight years, Blake is credited with leading the drive to find a new … » Read

An aggrieved Julian Lloyd Webber has threatened to quit as principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatory (RBC) if government plans to drop a specialist music center grant to RBC are not revised. The Office for Students (OfS), the body in charge … » Read

True or false? Armenian soprano Ruzan Mantashyan [pictured] was disinvited from participating in the Dresden Opera Ball on February 7 because Russian tenor Yusif Eyvazov [Netrebko's husband] refused to sing on the same stage with someone of her … » Read

LOS ANGELES –-The events, personalities and issues of the 1960s—the riots, the assassinations, the Beatles, drugs, free love, Vietnam, feminism, black power, etc.—have been publicized so much as to nearly lose their power to … » Read

Susanna Mälkki, Musical America’s 2017 Conductor of the Year , has joined a rather elite group of maestros: Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Chilean-Italian conductor Paolo Bortolameolli. The four are the sole clients of Fidelio … » Read

LONDON — BBC Director-General Tony Hall announced Monday that he will step down from the helm of the U.K. broadcaster in six months after seven years in the job. Hall said he was quitting so that a new leader can oversee a mid-term review … » Read