As reports of internal dissatisfaction grew loude r on NPR and in the Associated Press, Plácido Domingo has told The New York Times that he would withdraw from performing Verdi’s Macbeth and, indeed, from all future performances. … » Read

Sony Music Entertainment has announced two key promotions from within the company ranks to replace Bogdan Rošcic as head of the Sony Music Classical business when he steps down to become artistic director of the Vienna State Opera next … » Read

Last Friday, NPR reported that a number of Met orchestra and chorus members were upset at having to perform alongside Placido Domingo in the upcoming production of Macbeth . In response, Met General Manager Peter Gelb called a meeting for … » Read

On the same day that Plácido Domingo’s 51-year career at the Metropolitan Opera came to an abrupt end due to allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior, news broke that the Royal Opera was investigating Vittorio Grigolo, an … » Read

Challenging the form seems the underlying theme to Opera Philadelphia’s consistently refreshing O19 Festival, and if the U.S. premiere of Philip Venables’s Denis & Katya does that most obviously, the two more conventional … » Read

The Minnesota Orchestra has a new leadership model for its annual Sommerfest in July. Rather than appoint a new artistic director—the last was Andrew Litton, who stepped down in 2017 —it has opted instead for a “Creative Partner … » Read

West London’s huge Olympia center, site of sprawling exhibitions and conventions, is due to get a £1bn ($1.25b) makeover. Recently approved development plans by the site’s owner YOO Capital and its project partner Deutsche … » Read

For the next year, the Baltimore Symphony will offer base pay of $84,696 per anum, with four weeks of paid vacation during a 38-week concert season, plus a monetary bonus for summer weeks that they are not in session. Benefits will carry through … » Read

The struggle to maintain Westminster Choir College’s Princeton, NJ, location—not to mention its student body, faculty, reputation, and highly prestigious choruses—continues unabated. Rider University, which merged with … » Read

It’s not fair to say that the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra were peeking at each other’s season-opening plans, but for sure there were strange and wonderful program similarities. Both orchestras have moved … » Read