The conductor Mirga Gražinté-Tyla gave birth to a baby boy at the end of August. The news has been kept private until now. She will return

Our social affairs correspondent reports that Ariane Matiakh, newly appointed GMD of Handel’s town Halle, today posted one word on her social media: Separated. Ariane,

Aleksandra Kurzak has dropped out of tonight’s Traviata. Ailyn Perez will make an unscheduled Paris debut.   These Violettas get younger and younger.

The Teatro Liceu in Barcelona is about to advertise internationally for an artistic director. Christina Scheppelmann, in charge since 2014, will finish in 2020. Her

The Canadian diva has said she will donate Sweden’s richly-endowed Rolf Schock prize to her mentoring organisation, Equilibrium Arts. Past winners include György Ligeti, Jorma Panula,

The LA Phil, caught short by a late Daniel Harding cancellation, has had to change its programme and press assistant conductor Paolo Bortolameolli into service. Paolo

It was announced this morning that Johannes Neubert will leave the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the end of 2019. Neubert, 49, will have served for

The St Louis Symphony posted good results last night. Audiences up, revenues and donations likewise. Most striking was the endowment news. The irch has $223.2 million

There were calls this summer for Stefanie Carp to be dismissed as director of the Ruhr Triennale after she first sacked a band for proclaiming

Madrid’s Teatro Real has replaced professional extras in its forthcoming Idomeneo with a call for volunteers, who nwill be making their stage debut. The move

The small Swedish town of Jönköping is ablaze with controversy after a musician in the Jönköpings Sinfonietta was fired after an incident that took place during an