Timothy Myers to Be New Music Director of Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra

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Spoleto Festival USA has announced that Timothy Myers will be the company’s new Music Director. Myers is the Music Director at Austin Opera and has performed with such organizations as the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and the Wexford Festival. He has also been a speaker at the SXSW Festival, {…}

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Santa Fe Opera Names New Director of the Apprentice Program for Singers

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Santa Fe Opera has named pianist and educator Kevin Murphy as Director of the Apprentice Program for Singers. Moreover, the company revealed that longtime Chorus Director Susanne Sheston will take on the newly created role of Associate Director. Murphy currently serves as Professor of Music in Collaborative Piano and Director of Coaching and Music Administration at the Indiana University Jacobs {…}

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Q &A: Soprano Laura Strickling on her New Album, ‘LEGENDS: Rebellion’

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(Credit: Arielle Donson) A brilliant new CD with soprano Laura Strickling, pianist Joy Schreier, and cellist Carrie Bean Stute, makes a touching and important poetic and musical statement about the condition of women in the contemporary world, with moving poetry, original compositions, and stellar performances. “LEGENDS: Rebellion” explores what it means to rebel politically, emotionally, erotically, maternally, and spiritually. These {…}

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Light Opera of New Jersey Announces Inaugural Youth Ensemble Concert

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Light Opera of New Jersey will present the inaugural LONJ Youth Ensemble Concert on Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. The concert, which will be directed by Susan Speidel, LONJ’s Shari Loe Youth in Arts Director, will feature 18 young vocalists performing a program of arias, art songs and musical theater {…}

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Dmitry Yablonsky Announced as Music Director and Chief Conductor for Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

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The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra has announced Dmitry Yablonsky as its new Music Director and Chief Conductor. He will take up his post immediately. The conductor and cellist was already named conductor laureate of the Jerusalem Symphony in 2016. Yablonsky has conducted in Camerino (Italy) and is the Music Director of Kiev Virtuosi. Since fall 2016, he teaches at the Buchmann-Mehta {…}

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Houston Grand Opera to Feature ‘Music-Stories-OPERA!’

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Houston Grand Opera will present “Music-Stories-OPERA!” this September. The hour-long program will introduce students to opera through live music, storytelling, and audience participation, offering selections from classic operas, a language guessing segment on famous arias, and a collaborative mini opera created in real time with the performers. Soprano Siwei Zhang, mezzo soprano Danielle Romano, baritone Fernando Grimaldo, and music director {…}

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Musicians of the New York Philharmonic to Perform at FIFA World Cup Halftime Show

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On July 19, 2026, Musicians of the New York Philharmonic, members of the American Federation of Musicians Local 802, will perform at the FIFA World Cup Final’s first-ever Halftime Show at New York New Jersey Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The orchestra members will take the field alongside members of Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and will perform together {…}

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Q & A: Frederica von Stade on Performing in Ravinia with Susan Graham, Doing Masterclasses & the Performances She Most Cherishes

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Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade spent decades among the most celebrated singers of her generation, performing on the world’s leading stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, and the Paris Opera. Though she stepped back from full time performing in 2010, retirement {…}

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Royal College of Music & Tête à Tête Team Up for Five World-Premiere Operas

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(Credit: Jeremy Richardson) The Royal College of Music and Tête à Tête will present “Fantasy & Fairytales” this July. The program features five world-premiere short operas by RCM composers, on July 3, 4, and 6 at 7 p.m. in the Britten Theatre at the Royal College of Music in London. All five operas will be performed by RCM singers and {…}

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Timothy Myers to Be New Music Director of Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra

Santa Fe Opera Names New Director of the Apprentice Program for Singers

Q &A: Soprano Laura Strickling on her New Album, ‘LEGENDS: Rebellion’

Light Opera of New Jersey Announces Inaugural Youth Ensemble Concert

Dmitry Yablonsky Announced as Music Director and Chief Conductor for Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

Houston Grand Opera to Feature ‘Music-Stories-OPERA!’

Musicians of the New York Philharmonic to Perform at FIFA World Cup Halftime Show

Q & A: Frederica von Stade on Performing in Ravinia with Susan Graham, Doing Masterclasses & the Performances She Most Cherishes

Royal College of Music & Tête à Tête Team Up for Five World-Premiere Operas