Australian conductor Simone Young [pictured] will replace Music Director Jaap van Zweden in the New York Philharmonic's concerts this week, April 11-13. Repertoire is Mahler Symphony No. 6. An orchestra spokesperson indicated the conductor had … » Read

Larry Hancock, Opera San José’s general director since 2014, has announced his intention to retire at the end of the 2019-20 season. Since 1984, when the company’s founder Irene Dalis made him her first hire, Hancock has filled … » Read

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — A violinist for a Texas symphony has suffered an apparent heart attack during a weekend performance and died despite the efforts of doctors in the audience who rushed to help him. Sixty-year-old Yu Zhao Gu was … » Read

Soprano Lisette Oropesa, whose CV boasts over 100 performances at the Metropolitan Opera, including winning the Guild’s 2005 National Council Auditions, has been chosen by a panel of elites to receive the 2019 Richard Tucker Award. The … » Read

Ivo van Hove is riding the crest of a wave right now. A 2016 Tony-Award-winner for A View from the Bridge , he has been earning raves from local critics over his current high-tech Broadway production of Network (with a visceral central … » Read

LOS ANGELES--The Los Angeles Philharmonic program April 6 in Disney Concert Hall, perhaps by chance, featured a trio of women, including a female soloist, a female conductor, and a female composer of a world premiere. In a season, the … » Read

Dust never has too much time to settle on Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock before another revival comes along, and that’s the way it should be for this classic of American opera, which Blitzstein called a play in music. The … » Read

Norwegian firm Snøhetta has won the bid for the design of Shanghai's Grand Opera House, listed as the most important project in China’s  five-year plan for global cultural influence. The new performing arts center, set for … » Read

Not alone among current presenters aiming for inclusivity, The English National Opera will celebrate, in the words of Artistic Director Daniel Kramer, “the rise of the feminine” in 2019-20. It has enlisted women to direct more than … » Read

Conductor Nil Venditti [pictured], a former principal cello of Rome's Santa Cecilia Youth Orchestra, has evolved into a successful conductor, currently studying in Zürich under the guidance of Johannes Schlaefli, and planning to work with … » Read