Pick of the Week

The Macron Caninet, meeting this morning, approved Alexander Neef as the next chief of the Opéra. Here’s a statement from

The Bayreuth Festival has chosen the Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen to lead the 2020 new production of Wagner’s Ring des

Sources in the BBC Philharmonic said there were two extras from the Baltimore Symphony in their expanded brass section at

Any doubts about the surprise appointment of a little-known Israeli, Omer Meir Wellber, as music director of the BBC Philharmonic

Opera Australia has announced concert performances of Andrea Chenier, starring Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier and Eva-Maria Westbroek. They are in

The Savannah Philharmonic has chosen Keitaro Harada as its next music director. Harada, 34, has earned his spurs these past

The troubled Sussex festival announced this morning that the US mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong has withdrawn from the title role in

Gareth Bimson has retired after 36 years as principal trumpet in the  BBC Symphony Orchestra.   His older brother John

The Cleveland Orchestra has called in a late replacement this weekend for Bramwell Tovey, who is receiving medical treatment. Making