In announcing its 2019-20 season, its 205 th , the Boston-based Handel and Haydn Society has said that its artistic director of ten years, Harry Christophers, has decided to make the following season, 2020-21, his last, and that a search is … » Read

NEW YORK - The Metropolitan Opera hasn’t presented Debussy’s sole completed opera, Pelléas et Mélisande (1895), since Sir Simon Rattle conducted it in 2010. The company’s new music director, Yannick … » Read

The Houston Grand Opera (HGO) continues its remarkable recovery from the ravages of 2017’s Hurricane Harvey with the recent announcement of its 2019-2020 season. The company will present 42 performances of seven operas in the Wortham … » Read

The Kimmel Center has shelved its ambitious plans to demolish the office building portion of the adjacent Merriam Theater building and construct a cantilevered residential tower as high as 32 floors. Nine developers expressed initial interest, … » Read

Bass-baritone Alan Held , a onetime a regular on the stages of The Metropolitan Opera, The Vienna State Opera, The Paris Opera, and others of kind, is  the new artistic director the Wichita Grand Opera. Held, current artist in residence for … » Read

Chicago-based WFMT, which specializes in classical content, including Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcasts and such syndicated shows as Exploring Music with McGlaughlin, has a new VP and general manager. He is George Preston, current general … » Read

Hannover’s triennial Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition has put new leadership in place as it looks to its next competition, in 2021. Violinists Antje Weithaas [pictured] and Oliver Wille will serve as co-artistic … » Read

San Francisco based artist manager Seldy Cramer has informed her clients of her decision to cut back, delivering most of artists into the hands of colleagues while maintaining management of the Takács Quartet and Uruguay-born conductor … » Read

Toronto’s largest performance venue is about to get yet another name. At a Jan. 21 press conference Civic Theaters Toronto announced that it will be partnering with Ontario’s largest credit union to rebrand the Sony Center for the … » Read

Productions of Romeo and Juliet, Billy Budd , and Manon Lescaut , the start of a multi-year project devoted to the Mozart-Da Ponte operas, and the Bay Area premiere of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs are among the highlights of San Francisco … » Read