Rider University officially announced an end to its attempted sale of Westminster Choir College to China’s Kaiwen Education, stating that the two parties had  “mutually agreed” to terminate the initial agreement . The … » Read

Jan Nast [pictured], current orchestra director of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, is to succeed Johannes Neubert as intendant of the Vienna Symphony. Neubert has moved to a similar post with the Orchestre National de France as of … » Read

The standard opera repertoire is rarely kind to women. More often than not, sickness, a jealous lover or rival, suicide, or some other lethal agent has done in one or more sopranos (and occasionally some mezzos) by the time the curtain falls. … » Read

The weekend opera world news is an indication of the ongoing struggle for the soul of the art. Should it challenge audiences with new visions or should it keep to the task of presenting opera as a traditional, stable artform?   On Friday, … » Read

The recent revelation that the  disastrous 2008 fire at Universal Studios in Hollywood destroyed far more than was originally reported suggests that those running the entertainment business are far better at hype than they are at telling the … » Read

The Linde Center for Music and Learning officially opened at Tanglewood on Fri., June 28. The $40m project, a complex that includes three studio spaces and a café, reaffirms the organization’s 80-year commitment to three big … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—After he returned from his sojourn in the New World, Dvorák ceased writing symphonies and turned for inspiration to Czech legend and folklore: first, in a brilliant quartet of symphonic poems (still too infrequently … » Read

MILAN--In 2016, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro opened its annual edition with director Damiano Michieletto’s  new production of La donna del lago. It was lavishly cast : Juan Diego Flórez (Uberto), Michael Spyres … » Read

On completion of their first seasons as music directors of the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera, Jaap van Zweden and Yannick Nézet-Séguin sat for an interview with The New York Times ; it was their first joint … » Read

The Rider University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is reporting that the university’s attempted sale of the Westminster Choir College to Kaiwen, a Chinese firm, is dead. Titled "Kaiwen Is Gone!," the … » Read