Dennis Russell Davies, principal conductor of the Brno Philharmonic, is to become chief conductor of the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra as of 2020-21. His contract is for four years, coinciding with the orchestra’s centennial in 2024. … » Read

It may have taken 35 years, but the Metropolitan Opera has finally gotten around to staging Akhnaten . Probably the most popular, certainly among the most readily comprehensible of Philip Glass’s 28 operas, it received its Met premiere on … » Read

The news that Marlboro College in Vermont is  closing and potentially merging with Emerson College in Boston, has prompted a letter to the Marlboro Music community from Christopher Serkin, Marlboro Music’s president and board chair and … » Read

The final season of Michael Tilson Thomas’s 25-year tenure at the San Francisco Symphony is occasion for analyses of his many accomplishments with the orchestra and who better to do the job than the local critic. Joshua Kosman uses the new … » Read

The League of American Orchestras, which claims its latest membership tops 2000, has six new board members, each of whom will serve a three-year term.  They are: Charles ("Chuck") Dickerson III [pictured]: founder, executive director, … » Read

Lisa Dell is the new executive director of the California Symphony; she succeeds Aubrey Bergauer who left in June, saying, essentially, that she wanted to share her secrets of success with the rest of the arts world. She claimed to have increased … » Read

The Irish National Opera’s upcoming production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola , has occasioned an interview with its director, Orpha Phelan. When she left her native Ireland for London in the mid-1990s, Phelan foresaw a career writing … » Read

TOKYO—The Tokyo Olympics organizing committee said Friday opera legend Placido Domingo has said he won’t perform at pre-Olympics cultural events in Japan. The committee said in a statement that Domingo has decided not to perform at an … » Read

John Curro, founding conductor of the Queensland Youth Symphony and one of Australia’s most revered and influential pedagogues, died on November 6. He was 86. He is mourned by many of the country’s prominent musicians and music … » Read

Abhijit Sengupta, director of artistic planning for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for just under two years, is to be the new director of artistic planning for Carnegie Hall as of January 6. He succeeds Jeremy Geffen, who  left last spring … » Read