The warm, celebratory atmosphere of the Musical America Awards, deemed by many as the industry’s annual holiday party, belies the logistical challenges for the organizers. First, the event has to take place in December, when the annual … » Read

French conductor Alain Altinoglu, 44, is to succeed Andrés Orozco-Estrada as chief conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra as of 2021-22 for three seasons. Orozco-Estrada is headed to the helm of the Vienna Symphony, starting … » Read

Deutsche Welle , the German state-owned international broadcaster, has launched a dedicated classical music YouTube channel, timed to coincide with Beethoven’s 250 th birthday celebrations. Effective immediately, DW Classical Music will … » Read

On Dec. 5 the other shoe dropped for Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo when the Royal Opera announced his firing following an investigation of an incident this past September in Tokyo. Grigolo allegedly groped a female chorister during the curtain … » Read

Eun Sun Kim is to be the music director of the San Francisco Opera as of August 2021 and takes the title designate immediately. Kim, 39, was Musical America’s June 2018 New Artist of the Month , and is well known in European opera circles, … » Read

When Riccardo Muti, Musical America’s 2010 Musician of the Year, was told that the Salzburg Festival was the 2020 “Festival of the Year,” he shared a favorite memory, as told to Susan Elliott, August 2019. The Salzburg Festival … » Read

PARIS—Pre-revolutionary Russia teemed with hereditary princes. The dramatis personae of War and Peace lists a dozen but there were hundreds more, not to mention counts and barons, most of them materially entitled as well as nominally … » Read

To hear the leadership of the Minnesota Orchestra (MO) tell it, an $8.8m operating deficit for the 2019 fiscal year, the largest in the organization’s history, is nothing to worry about. President and CEO Michelle Miller Burns characterized … » Read

Pianist Angela Hewitt has been brilliantly plying her trade since the 1980s, but 2020 appears to be the year in which she is properly lauded. On June 2, 2020 she will receive the Wigmore Medal, which recognizes major international personalities … » Read

The Grand Teton Music Festival’s Board of Directors has voted to re-invite Kristen Linfante, Juan de Gomar, and Jennifer Ross, the three musicians it “dis-invited” for their openly expressed disagreements with management. At the … » Read