Another success story for El Sistema has emerged, with the announcement that 27-year-old conductor and violinist Diego Matheuz is to be the new resident principal conductor of La Fenice, starting next year. He succeeds Eliahu Inbal and has signed a four-year contract.

British conductor Robin Ticciati is to be music director of the Glyndebourne Festival, Britain’s annual summer opera event on the Sussex estate of the its late founder, John Christie. Glyndebourne is known as much for its artistic program as for its aristocratic trappings, with patrons attending the opera in formal attire and dining during the interval.

Harvard University’s Loeb Music Library is the recipient of a large part of Sir Georg Solti’s archive, including hundreds of marked scores, the University announced yesterday. The Library is already home to Solti’s recordings archive for British Decca from 1947-1997, a collection said to include collaborations with most of the major artists on the world’s stages during that time span. Solti holds the world record for the most Grammy awards – in any category.

When Rudolf Barshai first took the podium to conduct the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in a 1985 performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8, it was clear immediately that he was something special.

Orchestras don’t come any hotter than the Berlin Philharmonic but maestro Simon Rattle knows how to tend the fire.

Esa-Pekka Salonen has extended his tenure with the Philharmonia – but is his Bartók season ill advised?

Having someone on the podium in front of 100 musicians does matter. Just ask Leonard Slatkin, Colin Davis, Lionel Bringuier and Vladimir Ashkenazy.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic sounds like an orchestra that’s out to impress. A high-octane publicity machine is flaunting the orchestra’s new music director, Gustavo Dudamel, as if he were the Second Coming.