As announced in July 2025 , Music@Menlo, coming up on its 25 th -anniversary season in summer 2027, has new artistic directors in cellist Dmitri Atapine and pianist Hyeyeon Park, the couple that succeeds founders David … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has named acclaimed composer and conductor Joe Hisaishi composer-in-residence for a five-year term beginning in the 2027-28 season and extending through 2031-32. Hisaishi will lead performances at the Hollywood Bowl, … » Read

Just on the heels of cancelled early-season performances due to necessary repair work on the Düsseldorf Opera, Alexandra Stampler-Brown, its managing director as well as that of Deutsche Oper am Rhein, has announced her exit next summer when … » Read

Judith Blegen, a lyric soprano who over 21 years sang more than 200 performances at The Metropolitan Opera, died on Oct. 23 at age 85. She debuted as Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte , and would go on to sing 20 different roles. … » Read

When Abraham Lincoln’s 11-year old son Willie died in 1862, his parents initially interred him in the Oak Hill Cemetery. The Georgetown graveyard is the setting for Lincoln in the Bardo , George Saunders’s 2017 novel and the opera of … » Read

Sir Bryn Terfel’s upcoming tour of Australia offers the internationally celebrated bass-baritone an opportunity to not only concertize but also share the fruits of his decades-long experience ina series of masterclasses with young artists … » Read

Cellist Nicholas Canellakis [pictured] has joined the New England Conservatory (NEC) faculty. An internationally celebrated soloist and chamber musician, Canellakis is also a composer/arranger, pedagogue, and digital content creator. His comedic … » Read

As one conductor steeped in the legend of El Sistema leaves Los Angeles, another arrives. Domingo Hindoyan, friends with Gustavo Dudamel since they were boys in Caracas, began his tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Opera last weekend … » Read

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has grouped its fundraising, marketing, technology, and patron services together under the newly created post of Senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer. Jennifer Barton, with the BSO since 2020, takes the … » Read

Nathalie Stutzmann’s former manager Gaetan Le Divelec is to be VP of Artistic Planning and Operations at the New Jersey Symphony as of Nov. 1. He arrives from the Atlanta Symphony, where he took the same job not long after Stutzmann arrived … » Read