NAPLES, Italy—Riccardo Muti has generally steered clear of staged opera in recent years, preferring to showcase his Verdi in concert, a format perfected in Chicago and last summer in Florence and Ravenna, Italy, with Macbeth . But that … » Read

Violinist/conductor Nikolaj Znaider further solidifies his podium credentials with news that he is to be the next music director of the Orchester National de Lyon (ONL), succeeding Leonard Slatkin, who left in 2017. Coincidentally, the news … » Read

The Nov. 28 auction of items from the private collection of Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya has produced a bonanza for the couple’s two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich. Sotheby’s London auction house reported … » Read

For three nights in early December, the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, located on 9 th Avenue in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, will host Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors . First produced for television in 1951, the … » Read

About one year ago, news arrived that Ramón Ortega, then principal oboe of Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under its Principal Conductor Mariss Jansons, would be moving to the same position with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, starting in … » Read

The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) has tapped John Fisher, assistant general manager for music administration at the Metropolitan Opera, to be the first artistic director of its new David Seligman Opera School. Fisher, says … » Read

DETROIT — Patricia Hall went to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in 2016 hoping to learn more about the music performed by prisoners in World War II death camps. The University of Michigan music theory professor heard there were manuscripts, … » Read

Things are looking up for the Hartford (CT) Symphony Orchestra, which three years ago faced near extinction until the musicians accepted a substantial pay cut . The orchestra also appointed its own executive director in Stephen Collins , giving … » Read

Eldon Warner, a senior at the University of South Dakota, possesses an unusual combination of talents. A conference champion cross-country runner and potential sub-4:00 miler, he is also a serious opera singer who hopes to pursue a career in … » Read

CHICAGO – If the big operas of Paul Hindemith, including Cardillac (1926) and Mathis der Maler (1935), have largely been ignored by major opera companies in recent decades, the relatively modest demands of the German composer’s … » Read