Cardiff University has reversed plans, announced in early February , to eliminate its music and modern language departments. Part of a plan to cut 400 positions at the beginning of 2025, the university’s announcement created a firestorm of … » Read

The Charlotte (NC) Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has surpassed its $50 million goal for a three-year comprehensive campaign to secure new endowment funds and operating support. It is the largest fundraising effort in the ensemble’s 93-year … » Read

When Anthony Roth Constanzo became general director and president of Opera Philadelphia a year ago, he inherited a company that, despite its innovative programming, was floundering financially . As one of the only singers in his prime to also be … » Read

On October 21 in Stockholm, Sweden, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf will present the 2025 Birgit Nilsson Prize to the Festival d’Aix-En-Provence. Currently preparing its 77 th season, the French festival is the first of its kind to receive … » Read

On May 18, British Prime Minister Kier Starmer, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, and Antonio Costa, president of the European Council, held a long-anticipated meeting in London to reset U.K.-E.U. relations in the … » Read

For the nine months from September 2025 to May 2026, the Balourdet Quartet will serve as the first-ever string quartet in residence for the Seattle Chamber Music Society (SCMS). The four members—violinists Angela Bae and Justin DeFilippis, … » Read

In 2025-26, noted presenter Washington Performing Arts (WPA) will avoid Kennedy Center, one of its longtime venues for classical music and other performances. WPA instead will spread its 60 th - anniversary offerings across a range of area halls, … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera increasingly relies on co-productions as a means to cut costs and, in most cases, give new stagings an “out of town tryout” before coming to the Met. The current season’s John Adams’s Antony and … » Read

When the National Endowment of the Arts withdrew a $25,000 grant awarded to support the Virginia Opera’s world premiere of Loving v. Virginia , by composer Damien Geter and librettist Jessica Murphy Moo, a chorus member in the production, … » Read

Once upon a time, Republicans embraced private giving as a way to replace government assistance. In 1988, George H. W. Bush put forth the idea of “a thousand points of light” in his acceptance speech as the Republican nominee for … » Read