Last week, Simon Woods announced he would exit the Los Angeles Philharmoni c as president and CEO; today Paul Meecham has announced he will leave the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera as president and CEO—in five days, no less. Meecham has been in … » Read

Gianandrea Noseda is reinventing the National Symphony. As his third season at the NSO’s helm begins, he has already hired 16 musicians—about one-sixth of the orchestra. “Ultimately, my goal as music director is to blend the … » Read

The  Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA), the only music school on the island of Zanzibar, is in trouble. The inability of almost 70 percent of the school’s 80 students to pay tuition (about $13 a month) has created a financial crisis … » Read

When the English National Opera performed Porgy and Bess a year ago in a new co-production with the Metropolitan Opera, it was widely predicted that the Met audience would love it. That prediction proved to be spot-on on Monday evening (September … » Read

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