National Symphony Orchestra names rising star Gianandrea Noseda as music director - Washington Post

It’s a coup for the NSO. Noseda is a rising star at the world’s leading orchestras and opera houses, including the Mariinsky Theater, where he became the company’s first foreign-born principal guest conductor at the start of his career, as well as the Israel Philharmonic, where he is principal guest conductor, and the Metropolitan Opera, where he opened the new production of Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers” on New Year’s Eve to considerable acclaim.

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ENO's woes: opera company begins new year in offstage turmoil

Chorus contract renegotiations and limited productions are not doomsday scenario, says management, but a way to help company remodel and growAs if losing an artistic director, chairman, executive director, a third of its public funding and its place in the national portfolio of arts organisations were not enough, the almost permanently beleaguered English National Opera is beginning 2016 with further dark clouds swirling.

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What We Learned from the Women Conductors

Dallas Opera General Director and CEO Keith Cerny reflects on the successes, and opportunities for further improvement, from the inaugural Institute for Women Conductors.

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New London concert hall ‘too expensive and in wrong place’

Instead of the planned £278m hall, intended to open in 2023 on the site of the Museum of London near St Paul’s Cathedral, an alternative venue on the north bank of the Thames at Blackfriars, opposite Tate Modern, could be delivered faster with less public subsidy and would have better access, they say.

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New York Philharmonic makes good on World Series bet against Kansas City - Washington Post

“This is very painful to me,” Alan Gilbert, the renowned orchestra’s music director, said after taking the stage in a Royals jersey and cap to conduct a special rendition of “Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City” from the musical “Oklahoma!”

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Gilbert Kaplan, conductor - obituary

Whatever the musicians’ views, by the time of his death Kaplan was no longer seen as a Walter Mitty character, as he had been in the 1980s. Rather, he had become a respected scholar on the composer.

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Ivory, at the tip of a complex issue for traveling orchestra members - Washington Post

It’s a mere quarter of a gram of ivory embedded at the bottom tip of many violin bows. But because it comes from the tusks of the African elephant, its presence has become a major headache for U.S. orchestras and soloists leaving the country for tours overseas.

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