SAN FRANCISCO — Los Angeles Opera said Tuesday it had hired Debra Wong Yang from the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to lead a “thorough and independent investigation” of the charges against its general director, opera … » Read

SALZBURG--The summer Salzburg Festival has not had much experience with Simon Boccanegra. Prior to this summer, the opera—one of Verdi’s most noble, moving, and serious—was staged here only once, in a 1961 production by Herbert … » Read

The Iceland Symphony Orchestra (ISO) is to celebrate its 70 th anniversary with an eight-concert U.K. tour under Yan Pascal Tortelier. The orchestra made its Britain debut at the BBC Proms five years ago but has never toured the U.K. before. The … » Read

Murray Perahia has withdrawn from his August 24 concert in Latvia with the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, and from concerts at the Salzburg Festival (August 30 and 31), BBC Proms ( Sep. 3), and the Lucerne Festival (Sept. 6), citing ill … » Read

Writing an opinion piece for The Washington Post , Olivia Giovetti, identified as “a classical music writer based in New York,” proposes that “to really save opera—and classical music in general—we have to let it … » Read

In 2018 Welsh National Opera held a symposium, “Where Are All the Women?” Now it has one answer, naming Tianyi Lu [pictured] as its first female conductor-in-residence. The symposium looked at challenges facing women in the classical … » Read

Neil Williams, a 15-year veteran of the Glyndebourne Opera chorus, is suing the company for unfair dismissal and age discrimination. “I was discarded like an old rag,” the Royal Academy of Music graduate told the Daily Mail . … » Read

SALZBURG-- In contrast to what Idomeneo had to endure, Salzburg’s other opera seria of the summer, Handel’s Alcina at the Haus für Mozart starring Cecilia Bartoli, had to contend merely with the expected foibles of a trendy … » Read

Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov, under house arrest largely for his outspoken views since August 2017, has been vindicated—for now. He had been accused of helping to embezzle 68 million rubles (more than $1 million) … » Read

A Japanese academic’s unexpected discovery of a cache of 350 letters in the Library of Congress has brought to light a decade-long affair between Leonard Bernstein and Kunihiko Hashimoto, a Japanese man 35 years his junior. Hashimoto first … » Read