Yesterday, two press releases arrived simultaneously: One from the League of American Orchestras announcing the 12 participants in its annual, eight-month Emerging Leaders Program, which trains budding orchestra administrators to move up the … » Read

MILAN — When I meet conductor Michele Gamba in October, his latest musical marathon is drawing to a close. He has recently concluded a run of L'elisir d'amore at La Scala featuring baritone Ambrogio Maestri, rising soprano Rosa Feola, … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera has lost another member of its PR team. Meg Boyle, who writes press releases and doles out complimentary press tickets, is leaving to join Carnegie Hall as Public Relations Associate later this month. Boyle follows Met … » Read

BRUSSELS — A Christian association is trying to prevent Brussels opera house La Monnaie from staging a production of Arthur Honegger's oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher , or Joan of Arc at the Stake, in which the heroine appears dressed … » Read

Nearly one third of the students of Westminster Choir College have filed a lawsuit against Rider University—which merged with WCC in 1991—to block its move of the conservatory from its storied Princeton, NJ, campus to Rider’s … » Read

The popular New York City Center series Encores! has selected a new artistic director. Lear deBessonet, currently resident director of the Tony-honored series, will assume the top slot beginning in 2021, when Jack Viertel, in the position for 20 … » Read

While recording composer David Lang’s The Day and World to Come for a 2018 album, cellist Maya Beiser kept imagining a dancer emerging from the notes that she played. Last week, New York audiences got to see that dream come to fruition. The … » Read

On Oct. 22 British musician Stephen Morris’s 310-year-old violin was stolen when he mistakenly left it on the London to Orpington train. British Transport Police have identified a person of interest in the theft from CCTV footage. "It's … » Read

The Eastman Philharmonia will not go to China after all. Late last night, Eastman School of Music Dean Jamal Rossi [pictured] pulled the plug on the 12-city tour, which involved all but three of the orchestra’s players. The three were South … » Read

Joyce DiDonato will conclude her massive “In War & Peace” tour at the Kennedy Center on November 9, having taken it to 44 cities and 23 countries since its launch in 2016. The following day, on November 10, she will sit down in at … » Read