Montreal-based conductor Jean-Sébastien Vallée is the new director of choruses and conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus (TFC) for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with immediate effect. He succeeds James Burton, who took over … » Read

Over a few tortured weeks in February and March of 2022 the Metropolitan Opera and its reigning prima donna, Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, engaged in a war of words that ended with the severing of a relationship that had benefited both parties … » Read

David Rubenstein, the former chair of The Kennedy Center whom Donald Trump ousted in February of 2025, has stepped forward to purchase Joel Shapiro’s Blue , the abstract sculpture removed last week from the Center’s grounds. Shapiro, … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Pretty much everyone on stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York must audition — even the snake who will briefly take center stage in an upcoming adaptation of a Mozart classic. In charge of deciding who gets the … » Read

Events.com, an AI and data-driven platform, has acquired Operabase. Operated by Copenhagen-based Arts Consolidated ApS since its 1996 founding, Operabase has been the definitive source for performing arts discovery, casting, and professional … » Read

LONDON--A great deal of ink has been spilled this last month on a perennial question: Is the Berlin Philharmonic the world’s greatest orchestra? This September 3 Royal Albert Hall concert, the second of the orchestra’s two BBC Proms … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — A chunk of ceiling fell inside a main hallway of the Kennedy Center, according to a spokesperson who said the damage underscores the need to shut down the historic arts venue for renovations sought by President Donald … » Read

Brent Michael Davids’s Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People will be introduced to an American audience at a one-night performance in Boston on Nov. 14, six months after its world premiere in London this past May. That gap … » Read

The deteriorating conditions at the Düsseldorf Opera House have forced the Deutsche Oper am Rhein to cancel performances, including all six of Madama Butterly , through the fall, and the opening theater festival on Sept. 13. The Oct. 11 … » Read

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — Missy Mazzoli’s desire to compose an opera about the opioids epidemic was sparked by the deaths of two cousins. “One was in 2002 and the other passed away in 2009 and they were both 25,” she … » Read