After more than a decade of international research led by academics at the University of Sydney, Mima’amakim ( Out of the Depths ) has been translated and published in English for the first time. This rare collection of songs by Jewish … » Read

Pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane seems not quite ready to give up on San Antonio. In 2024 he signed a three-year contract with the upstart San Antonio Philharmonic , successor to the San Antonio Symphony, which went out of business in 2022 … » Read

The Sarasota Orchestra’s new music center, projected to cost more than $400 million and having already attracted more than $60 million of support , has received an additional $11.7 million from an anonymous donor. The pending completion of … » Read

In less than six months after its departure from The Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera has fashioned an adventurous 2026-27 season that General Director Timothy O’Leary characterizes as one of “new creative freedom, new … » Read

The new Lincoln Center West Initiative will include a 2,000-seat amphitheater, christened The Baron Theater, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Gardens, each named for donors of $75 million. The first phase of a capital campaign raised … » Read

Racked by unrelenting pain, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo wrote in her diary shortly before she died: “I joyfully await the exit — and hope never to return.” Yet return she does — if only briefly — on the Day of the … » Read

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) 2026-2027 season pairs two Chicago premieres with expanded investment in new work and arts education. The Importance of Being Earnest, composed by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and drawn from Oscar Wilde’s iconic … » Read

The Santa Fe Opera, whose 2026 season runs July 3-August 29, has already laid the groundwork for 2027, which will run July 2 through August 28 and mark its 70 th anniversary. Boasting 38 performances, an American premiere, two new productions, a … » Read

After almost four years of turmoil following Arts Council England’s 2022 diktat that English National Opera (ENO) decamp from London for parts then unknown, ENO is about to present its first production created specifically for its new … » Read

Although Gustavo Dudamel does not officially start until September, he is already signaling that change is afoot at the New York Philharmonic. On an early May afternoon, the orchestra gathered for its first rehearsal with the Spanish Harlem … » Read