Gretchen Nielsen, LA Phil’s Vice President of Education Initiatives, has jumped ship to become chief exec of the young-talent training org From the Top, based in

Alitalia’s New Year just got a whole lot worse. See here. Stand by now for a Donald J. Trump tweet: As I made very clear

The Lucerne Festival has let it be known that the Venezuelan flagship orchestra will not be performing there with Gustavo Dudamel this summer. They were

The Swiss conductor, accused of sexual molestation, has relinquished the last of his positions. Dutoit, 81, continues to maintain his innocence. Press release: Following an

The soprano Ailyn Pérez is out of Munich’s new few Carmens. Her replacement as Micaela is the stunning Munich-based South African, Golda Schultz.    

A blogpost from the great violinist: We visited three leprosy colonies in the last two days. Leprosy, or Hansen’s Disease, is actually mostly a skin

From a lovely obit for East Village writer-musician Rayya Elias, who has died of liver and pancreatic cancer at 57: In the early ’80s, she moved

Hard to believe but the long-haired cellist from Latvia is 70 today… and still playing strong. He is the only cellist ever to have studied

Joshua Weilerstein is pressing for gender equality at Switzerland’s Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne. Simone Young is principal guest conductor and half the people chosen to

The musicologist Walther Dürr, one of the founders of the Neue Schubert Ausgabe in Tübingen and a luminary of many Schubertiads at Hohenems, died on

ForumOpera reports that the local authority has stepped in to purchase and restore the house at Bougival where Geirges Bizet composed Carmen and, three months