Kilgore College, with campuses in Kilgore and Longview, Texas, is cleaning out its music library, tossing decades’ worth of sheet music, LP and CD recordings, and potentially valuable music documents into dumpsters. News of this … » Read

Jenny Mollica has been promoted to chief executive of the English National Opera, having served as interim for the past year. She has been with the company since 2020, initially as director of strategy and engagement, a post in which she is … » Read

Sheryl Kennedy Haydel is the new dean of the College of Music and Media at Loyala University. She comes to the post after serving as interim for the last year, succeeding Kern Maass. The College of Music and Media was formerly known as the … » Read

The Opéra National du Rhin has appointed Matthew Straw as assistant conductor for the 2024-25 season at the Alsace company. The one-year posting calls for Straw to assist on productions of Ariodante , La Traviata , and others and to … » Read

Montreal Symphony Orchestra has named Mélanie La Couture, president and CEO of the Montreal Heart Institute, to be its next CEO, effective in July. She succeeds Madeleine Careau, who announced earlier this year that she would be stepping … » Read

LOS ANGELES—What to do with Puccini’s Turandot ?  Among the most popular operas on the boards—thanks in particular to “Nessun dorma”—it is also one of the most difficult to stage convincingly. It has … » Read

The new leadership team at Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin—artistic director Elisabeth Sobotka and general music director Christian Thielemann—have announced their first season, set to launch in the fall. Highlights of the … » Read

Andrew Ousley’s life changed a decade ago when he stepped into the small underground crypt beneath the gothic Church of the Intercession on 155 th Street in West Harlem. The space, which can hold up to 45 seat, fulfills what he describes as … » Read

After 18 years, Tobias Rempe will leave his post as artistic manager and managing director of the Ensemble Resonanz in the summer of 2025 to become the director of the Konzerthaus and Konzerthausorchester Berlin.  He succeeds Sebastian … » Read

LONDON—Back in the 18th and early 19th centuries, Pietro Metastasio was the undisputed go-to guy if you were looking for an opera libretto. So popular was the Roman poet, that an individual text might be set by multiple composers, often … » Read