The  Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA), the only music school on the island of Zanzibar, is in trouble. The inability of almost 70 percent of the school’s 80 students to pay tuition (about $13 a month) has created a financial crisis … » Read

West London’s huge Olympia center, site of sprawling exhibitions and conventions, is due to get a £1bn ($1.25b) makeover. Recently approved development plans by the site’s owner YOO Capital and its project partner Deutsche … » Read

The struggle to maintain Westminster Choir College’s Princeton, NJ, location—not to mention its student body, faculty, reputation, and highly prestigious choruses—continues unabated. Rider University, which merged with … » Read

For the next year, the Baltimore Symphony will offer base pay of $84,696 per anum, with four weeks of paid vacation during a 38-week concert season, plus a monetary bonus for summer weeks that they are not in session. Benefits will carry through … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera will bring Fire Shut Up My Bones to an as-yet-defined New York stage in as yet-defined future season. Composed by jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard with libretto by screenwriter Kasi Lemmons, the opera, premiered by the … » Read

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and its musicians have reached a tentative agreement, according to a joint statement issued Saturday evening by the musicians and co-signed by Linda Moxley, BSO VP of marketing & communications, and Brian … » Read

When a major glossy magazine like Vanity Fair writes about contemporary opera, you know something big must be afoot. The latter years of the 19 th century—the years of Verdi and Puccini—constituted a golden age for new operas, and now … » Read

Between the workers at General Motors and the players in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, union labor is having a difficult time of late. But in oil-rich Texas, management of the Houston Grand Opera has reached comfortable accords with all three … » Read

Starting next week, theaters in the UK are to receive instruction on how to plan for Brexit, with or without a deal with the European Union. The government has provided funding for its performance centers to properly prepare ahead of the October … » Read

The reopening of Paris's Théâtre du Châtelet on Sept. 13 represented more than simply the completion of a much-needed $34.7m renovation. It also marked the ongoing programmatic transformation of the 157-year-old venue. Long … » Read