The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra has announced that Joseph Young, 37, is to be its next music director, succeeding Joana Carneiro, who stepped down last season. He has signed a three-year contract for this, his first music directorship, and starts … » Read

In 2002 the Pacifica Quartet dazzled listeners at the Miller Theater by tackling all five of Elliott Carter’s string quartets in a single concert. Now the JACK Quartet has followed suit, first in a two-concert stint at London’s … » Read

What’s an opera company to do about super/surtitles when there is no projection screen available, much less the technology required to project titles? In the case of On Site Opera, whose productions have been mounted everywhere from the … » Read

The U.K. Court of Appeal has ruled that the Royal Opera House (ROH)  failed to take reasonable steps to protect the hearing of violist Christopher Goldscheider [pictured] during a 2012 rehearsal of Wagner's Die Walküre.   As a … » Read

Donald Trump, no fan of the arts, is unwittingly helping to preserve one of China’s threatened cultural treasures—the Cantonese opera. Trump on Show , a new opera by Edward Li Kui-ming, played to packed houses during a recent … » Read

Justin Brown, current manager of concert operations for the New York Philharmonic, has been appointed VP and general manager of the Aspen Music Festival and School. He starts June 20, succeeding Keith Elder, recently named executive director of … » Read

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra plans to donate the proceeds of an upcoming concert in Berlin to the reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral. The Paris landmark was badly damaged in a fire on Monday. Berlin Cathedral, which is hosting the May 2 … » Read

James Higdon, the Dane and Polly Bales Professor of Organ at the University of Kansas School of Music, has an update on the status of Les Grandes Orgues (the Grand Organ) of the Notre Dame Cathedral. Higdon has given five recitals on the organ, … » Read

Not yet two weeks after announcing its 2019-20 season , the English National Opera has announced the departure of Artistic Director Daniel Kramer. This marked his first administrative position , and he stayed in it just three years. He will leave … » Read

LOS ANGELES--Local audiences know what to expect when they show up to hear Esa-Pekka Salonen conduct The Rite of Spring with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. They expect a wild good time, an orchestral spectacle, a whomping cataclysm of sound. … » Read