Is it a coincidence that the Seattle Symphony has chosen two recent chief executives of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to be its president and CEO? In 2011 it appointed Simon Woods of the RSNO to take its top administrative job. Yesterday, … » Read

The Asheville (NC) Symphony has named Serbian-born Darko Butorac [pictured] as its new music director. He will remain artistic chief of the Tallahassee (FL) Symphony and the Missoula (MT) Symphony as well. Butorac, one of six candidates for the … » Read

In an interview in The Telegraph promoting her upcoming BBC4 program The Lost World of Female Composers , soprano Danielle de Niese [pictured] makes an argument for recognizing “unsung heroines” that is well-reasoned and free of the … » Read

In a recent opinion column for The Stage , Richard Jordan, the U.K.-based award-winning theater producer, complains that transfers from the U.K. have dominated the American dramatic and musical theater scene during the past year. The phenomenon … » Read

When she initially announced the first, 2010 White Light Festival, Jane Moss—artistic director of Mostly Mozart, Great Performers, and Lincoln Center’s other presenting series—reported that her inspiration for it evolved from … » Read

LONDON—The U.K.’s capital has waited years for a new Lohengrin . It’s four decades since the swan knight last sailed into Covent Garden, but he is here now in the suave shape of Klaus Florian Vogt. The German tenor invariably … » Read