The Dallas Symphony has just named Gemma New principal guest conductor. Gemma, 32, from New Zealand, is music director in Hamilton, Canada, and resident conductor

The UK conductor Daniel Harding, who walked out earlier this year on the politically compromised Orchestre de Paris, renewed his contract today with the Swedish

Gregory Singer, a New York violin dealer, hired 55 musicians to play a Pledge of Allegiance in front of Fox News. This is America 2018.

From Melvyn’s fact-packed speech to the House of Lords:   Today our musicians travel freely; connections are essential in the global creative world. Post Brexit

There are dozens, possibly hundreds, of seats still available this morning for tonight’s Fanciulla del West, looking on the Met’s seat plan. Plenty of them

A survey of 22 international orchestras reveals astonishing disparities in certain instruments. The survey reports: Bassoon (86% male), double bass (95%), and timpani (96%) players

The Toronto pianist Scott Cushnie, who went missing from his seniors apartment building in August, is believed to have died and been buried in a bizarre

Aus unserem bulging inbox: Die Staatsoper Unter den Linden sucht neugierige Reporterinnen und Reporter zwischen 15 und 18 Jahren, die in den Herbstferien vom 29.

Long Beach has named Jennifer Rivera as executive director and CEO, promoting her from director of development. She was previously an active international singer and

Wolfgang Koch has withdrawn from the fall run of Tosca due to illness. Željko Lučić will sing the role of Scarpia on 10/25 & Claudio

A closed hearing is going on at Moscow’s Meshchansky court this morning as prosecutors accuse the international opera director Kirill Serebrennikov, 49,  of embezzling $2 million