Since its premiere in 1935, the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess has been a surefire means of breaking down racial barriers in the opera house. The estate’s insistence on an all-black cast, as will be the case when the English National … » Read

A series of seven concerts later this month will mark the culmination of a multi-year partnership between the North Carolina Symphony and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI). The concerts’ centerpiece will be Si Otsedoha ( … » Read

The demise of the original New York City Opera in the fall of 2013 is often blamed on a Series of Unfortunate Events in its final years, including the hiring of European impresario Gerard Mortier as general director by NYCO Board Chair Susan … » Read

Esa-Pekka Salonen is to helm a new, pre-professional conducting program at the Colburn School, its first. Funded by the Chicago-based Negaunee Foundation, it will be called the Negaunee Conducting Program and its participants—no more than … » Read

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is following in the footsteps of its sister ensembles in St. Louis and Pittsburgh by converting a 1930s-era movie palace—the former Warner Grand Theater—into a 1,750-seat concert hall. A … » Read

An ongoing investigation of Ticketmaster by Canada’s Competition Bureau (CCB) will now include whether it enables large-scale scalping. The Bureau is already suing Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, to stop deceptive … » Read

On Jan. 16 the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will officially open the RCO House, the orchestra’s new administrative home. The 1908 building by architect H.P. Berlage, renovated at a cost of $14.3 million, is located on the Museumplein near … » Read

The New York Philharmonic is tapping into the China market big time, announcing today the launch of a four-year program in 2014 that sees the orchestra in a series of teaching and performing residencies in Shanghai, in partnership with the … » Read

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, ever so costly to build ($470 million, six years ago) continues to be ever so costly to maintain, with much of the burden shouldered by local tax payers. The Center already gets $7.65 million … » Read

Miami's $470 million Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, opened in 2006 after years of delays and cost overruns (and, initially, without a parking facility), is in need of repair -- $5 million worth. A thunderstorm on May 20 caused a … » Read