San Francisco Opera loses music director
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The San Francisco Opera will not extend the tenure of music director Donald Runnicles when his contract expires in 2009.
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By RONALD BLUM  NEW YORK - Gerard Mortier noted a coincidence when he was being courted to become boss of the New York City Opera. "It was a little bit nostalgic," he said Wednesday. "The City Opera was created in '43.
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The executive director of the Seattle Symphony has been named president and chief executive officer of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the BSO announced Tuesday.
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An Italian conductor withdraws from a Royal Opera House production following a dispute over set design.
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Gian Carlo Menotti, who composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in Italy and the United States, died Thursday at a hospital in Monaco. He was 95.
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Arts & entertainment: Bryn Terfel shocked the opera world by dropping out of Covent Garden's Ring cycle. John Tomlinson was happy to pick up the pieces.
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Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella will write the libretto and direct a new work by composer Osvaldo Golijov that has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.
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New York's Metropolitan Opera said on  Friday it appointed a senior executive of Sony Music as general  manager, one of the most powerful jobs in the arts and one that  had been tipped for renowned tenor Placido Domingo.
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Leonard Slatkin, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, will step down in 2008.
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The Royal Opera said Tuesday that Ehrling, who was known for his vast knowledge of music and for his sharp temperament, died Sunday in New York City, where he had resided since the early 1970s.
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The three leading orchestras of this major music capital are now going through changes in artistic leadership.
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The opera world was yesterday mourning the death of Renata Tebaldi, the greatest Italian soprano of her generation and the rival of Maria Callas.
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Soprano Hope Briggs has been pulled from the starring role in the San Francisco Opera's upcoming performance of Mozart's "Don Giovanni."
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American Opera said goodbye to its first lady on Saturday, exalting Sarah Caldwell in prayer and song in a tribute fit for a musical giant.
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The Musical Art Society will present its 25th and final "Music for a Summer Night" concert series Tuesdays in June.           Series founder and charter Lancaster Opera Workshop member Dorothy Parmer has decided to step down from the program she has run for 25 years.
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The San Francisco Opera plans to make films of its performances available for showings in movie theaters starting in March, the company said Tuesday.
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American tenor Neil Shicoff, who was overlooked for the position of director of Vienna's State Opera, has pulled out of Austria's renowned Salzburg Festival.Shicoff, in a letter to festival director Juergen Flimm, said he needed a break to rethink his priorities and distance himself from 'intrigues and disappointments.' A copy of the letter, written in German, was provided to media outlets Tuesday by festival organizers.Shicoff, 58, a friend of Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, was deemed a favorite in the running to become the next director of the State Opera. Read more