McNally Smith College of Music will shut down this week after failing to meet the payroll. The school is in St Paul, Minnesota. Its chairman

Keith Cerny has resigned as general director and CEO of Dallas Opera with immediate effect. He will start next month in the same post at Calgary Opera,

An unsung feat of cultural diplomacy has won a future for an Iranian pianist. From the press release: Ashkan Layegh, winner of the 2017 Barbad

Colleagues have alerted us to a (fairly) new site on which the veteran US critic Conrad L. Osborne writes forensic reviews of current operas. Conrad

A typically wry provocation from Ivan Fischer in, of all places, the Lufthansa flight magazine. Here’s another: ‘Conducting is a very easy job. I don’t