Sara Mohr-Pietsch [pictured], a BBC Radio 3 host and producer, is to succeed Joanna MacGregor OBE as artistic director of the Dartington International Summer School and Festival at the end of the 2019 edition. Mohn-Pietsch, presenter of live from … » Read

Donald Trump has nominated Mary Anne Carter, a former chief policy adviser to Florida Governor (and U.S. Senate candidate) Rick Scott to be chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Aside from her 18-month tenure as the NEA’s … » Read

PARIS —Back in 2005, Cuban-American soprano Lisette Oropesa [pictured]—the recent Marguerite de Valois in the Paris Opera’s Les Hugenots --weighed 210 pounds. Now she weighs just 123.   "That's a lot to lose. It took five … » Read

LOS ANGELES — Trumpeter Roy Hargrove, a prolific player who provided his jazz sound to records across a vast range of styles and won two Grammys, has died at age 49, his manager said Saturday. Hargrove died in New York on Friday of cardiac … » Read

For the past 15 years, Andreas Mitisek, Long Beach Opera’s (LBO) artistic and general director, has positioned his company on the cutting edge of contemporary opera. “I’m not interested in museum art,” he tells the Long … » Read

Meg Booth, director of dance programming at the Kennedy Center, is to be CEO of Houston’s Society for the Performing Arts (SPA), effective December 1. She succeeds Leslie Nelson who has been serving as interim since June Christensen retired … » Read

In a remarkable cri de coeur published in The Guardian , American composer John Luther Adams laments the current state of the world. “I used to be a short-term pessimist and a long-term optimist,” writes the winner of the 2014 … » Read

Not every singer can boast having created leading roles in world premieres by John Adams and Kaija Saariaho by the age of 31, but bass-baritone Davóne Tines isn’t your average opera star. A Harvard graduate and the recipient of … » Read

Countertenor David Daniels [pictured] has issued a statement denying claims of sexual harassment as outlined in a lawsuit filed against him by Andrew Lipian , a master's degree student in University of Michigan's (UM) School of Music, … » Read

The Edinburgh International Festival, described by a Scotland tourism site as “the crème de la crème of opera, dance, and performance” and held every August in the city’s concert halls and theaters, has a new … » Read