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Music
Hannigan, the rare artist to have a career as a soprano and a conductor, will assume a full-time conducting post for the first time.
By Javier C. Hernández
Europe
Tilman Michael, who leads the Frankfurt Opera’s chorus, will succeed the veteran conductor Donald Palumbo, who steps down this season after 17 years.
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The conductor, whose tenure in New York ends this summer, will begin a five-year term at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in 2026.
Dance
Barry Hughson, a leader at the National Ballet of Canada, will join the company as it tries to get beyond financial woes.
The company put on a semi-staged version of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the last minute, after a backstage lift got jammed.
The agreement, which includes salary increases of nearly 16 percent over three years, ends months of tense negotiations.
After the pandemic forced the cancellation of a tour planned for 2022, the ensemble will visit Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in June.
Matthew Muckey and Liang Wang said they were sidelined without cause by the New York Philharmonic after a recent magazine article detailed allegations of misconduct against them.