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

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

The Hungarian State Opera’s current residency in New York is quite an undertaking. Over the course of two weeks, 350 singers, dancers, and musicians will present a wealth of opera, ballet and concert performances, with the opera program … » Read

Over the past 15 years, the Minnesota Orchestra (MO) has defied the conventional wisdom that American orchestras are no longer recording aside from an occasional live performance captured on in-house labels. Beginning in 2004, the MO began a … » 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

Tens of thousands of children across the U.S. are learning to play the violin by the immersive Suzuki method, listening to excerpts recorded by disgraced Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster William Preucil, Jr. So Alfred Music, the publishing … » Read

Noise pollution is no laughing matter in Germany. In 2015 alone, there were more than 12,000 legal disputes among neighbors, reports the Rheinische Post . According to a recent study by the Forsa Institute, 74 percent of lawsuits by and against … » Read

The arts world of the city of Detroit has just received a huge boost—as in $20 million—from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; monies are being positioned as an “investment” in the city’s arts groups, … » Read

The Baltimore Symphony musicians have issued a press release stating that they have been playing without a contract since September 9, after two one-year contract extensions, the second at the request of the orchestra’s then new CEO, Peter … » 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