The recent agreement ending a nearly week-long walkout by the orchestra of the San Francisco Opera (SFO) enabled the company’s season to get underway, albeit late. But it did little to resolve the increasingly untenable financial situation … » Read

Boston Symphony double bass player Todd Seeber, the former member and chair of BSO Players Committee, who guided them through their recent, very tough contract negotiations, has written an opinion piece in the Boston Globe. He explains that, just … » Read

Among Berlin’s three repertory opera companies—the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Komische Oper, and the Deutsche Oper—the last is often considered the most conservative. It’s “a little bit dusty… [a home … » Read

See also Part I.  In the years since its founding in 2016, Tippet Rise has expanded in myriad ways—new sculpture, additional housing, dining facilities, acreage, livestock, and solar panels to power it all. The attention to detail is … » Read

Six weeks ago Dawn Airey, a TV industry veteran, succeeded Nicholas Serota as chair of Arts Council England. The agency, which annually grants more than £650m of public and lottery money to arts organizations and individuals, has been … » Read

The process of renewal at the Ravinia Festival is set to continue with the $38 million renovation of the Martin Theatre, the last original structure from the 1904 opening of the 36-acre wooded park in Highland Park. Characterizing the building as … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people joined outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Friday evening to protest President Donald Trump’s plans for the facility, lending their voices to a chorus of organizations and … » Read

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has received an anonymous gift of $60 million, the largest in its history, to underwrite a five-year preservation, cataloguing, and digitization effort to increase public access to over 15 … » Read

Like the colleagues in the Boston Symphony , National Symphony , and the San Francisco Opera orchestra s, the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) have reached a new collective bargaining agreement. The Chicagoans have ratified … » Read

Just on the eve of its annual Fall for Dance Festival, a two-week event that brings some of the world’s top performers and dance companies to Manhattan (September 22-Oct.3), the New York City Center has received $5 million from its outgoing … » Read