Nicholas Carter
(c) Annette Koroll

The 39-year-old Australian conductor Nicholas Carter will become General Music Director of the Stuttgart State Opera and the Stuttgart State Orchestra from the 2026/27 season. Carter succeeds Cornelius Meister, whose contract expires after eight years. Read More →

Oper Stuttgart

According to media reports, the renovation and expansion of the Stuttgart Opera House will take at least four years longer than originally planned. The costs could then rise to between 1.5 and two billion euros, reports SWR. Previously, there had been talk of up to one billion. Read More →

Philharmonie de Paris and Cité musicale-Metz announced the renewal of their partnership agreement for five years, with the aim of strengthening their collaboration on a number of artistic and educational initiatives. Read More →

ICMA-Präsident Remy Franck bei seinem Vortrag
(c) Andreas Domjanic

An der Musikakademie in Liechtenstein fand jetzt ein Symposium für junge Musiker statt, bei dem Experten der Musikindustrie Informationen lieferten, die den Musikern beim Aufbau einer Karriere helfen sollen. Read More →

The New York Philharmonic is firing principal oboist Liang Wang and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey after their union decided not to contest the decision, which followed renewed allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse of power. Read More →

The Ukrainian pianist Svetlana Andreeva won the 16th Orléans International Piano Competition. South Africa’s Leo Gevisser took second prize and Japan’s Misora Ozaki third. Read More →

Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO), Australia, is delighted to announce that Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici’s contract has been extended by two years, securing his leadership of the orchestra until the end of 2027. The Italian cellist and conductor Umberto Clerici (*1981) is in this position since 2023.

Franz Welser-Möst
Photo: Don Snyder

The Cleveland Orchestra announced that Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will be unable to conduct the upcoming three weeks of performances in Cleveland due to ongoing medical treatment. This affects the planned Beethoven cycle. Cleveland Orchestra Associate Conductor Daniel Reith will lead all programs. Read More →

Semperoper Dresden
Photo: Remy Franck

Von den neun Opern, die Richard Strauss in Dresden uraufführen ließ, ist Intermezzo die am wenigsten bekannte und selten gespielteste – zu Unrecht, wie eine Neuproduktion an der Sächsischen Staatsoper zeigt. Michael Oehme berichtet. Read More →

Ukranian pianist Svjatoslav Richter

The German newspaper Die Zeit has decided to refer to the Ukrainian capital only as Kyiv and no longer to print the name according to the Russian transliteration, as was previously the case. The editors say that it is time to do this, because over the past 200 years the rulers in Moscow have deliberately used the language to suppress Ukrainian culture and identity. And this is still the case today. Read More →