Cecilia Bartoli is to become the first woman to run the Monte-Carlo Opera. Her appointment was announced today by Princess Caroline, who serves as chair of the board of directors.   Bartoli will still be “free to continue her work as a … » Read

After an eight-year tenure, Sakurako Fisher will step down as president of the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) in December of 2020. Priscilla B. Geeslin, a member of the orchestra’s board since 1995, will succeed her. During her tenure, Fisher … » Read

The Canadian Opera Company (COC) has selected the Canadian stage director Julie McIsaac as its inaugural director/dramaturg-in-residence at the COC Academy, its professional development program. McIsaac, a seasoned stage director, dramaturg, … » Read

A film director, dressed in jeans, a hoody, and a blazer, paces the stage. The wings are exposed. Freestanding lights frame the dancers, posed in a tableau. The director circles the group, opening and closing a clapperboard. With each click, a … » Read

British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor was 11 when he won the 2004 BBC Young Musician of the Year and a mere 19 when he made his Proms debut playing Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto, thrilling the crowd with Morton Gould’s Boogie Woogie … » Read

Here’s a shocker: When asked to name a classical composer they knew, 46 percent of Americans could not come up with a single one, according to a recent survey conducted by polling company YouGov and published by Primephonic . Among … » Read

Conductor/flutist Ransom Wilson and educator Gregory Robbins are the new director and associate director, respectively, of orchestral programs at California’s Idyllwild Arts Academy. Both are newly created, 12-month appointments. Wilson … » Read

OPERA America has awarded its first two IDEA Opera Grants, which are intended to support and promote new works by promising composers and librettists of color. “By facilitating their work,” noted Marc A. Scorca, president/CEO of OPERA … » Read

The proliferation of film streaming services is good news for viewers eager for ever more content. It is not such good news for the musicians who create the soundtracks for movies such as Noelle , Disney Plus’s holiday comedy that went … » Read

Chinese-American composer Lei Liang has won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams , an orchestral work about climate change. The piece was commissioned by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project … » Read