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

The Bayreuth Festival has chosen the Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen to lead the 2020 new production of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen, directed by Valentin Schwarz.

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

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

Opera Australia has announced concert performances of Andrea Chenier, starring Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier and Eva-Maria Westbroek. They are in Sydney on August 8 and

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

The troubled Sussex festival announced this morning that the US mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong has withdrawn from the title role in the new production of Handel’s

Gareth Bimson has retired after 36 years as principal trumpet in the  BBC Symphony Orchestra.   His older brother John played 39 years as principal

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