Cleo Laine, whose dark, velvetty voice, exceptional range, and ability to scat like Ella Fitzgerald defined British jazz in the 1950s and 60s, died on July 26 at her home in Wavendon, Buckinghamshire. Her remarkable versatility enabled her to … » Read

The Colburn School has passed a major milestone with the topping-out of its 100,000 square-foot, Frank Gehry-designed campus expansion. A celebration held at the Downtown Los Angeles construction site on July 25 marked the completion of the … » Read

The annual season of Teatro Nuovo, always a high point of New York’s musical summer, consisted this year of two highly contrasting works even if they have sleepwalking scenes in common. With Verdi’s Macbeth , given in its original … » Read

OPERA America has announced a group of nine artists, administrators, philanthropists, and advocates to be admitted to their Opera Hall of Fame. The 2025 inductees are:     Donnie Ray Albert, baritone and teacher     … » Read

Not content with their  recent move to name the Kennedy Center’s opera theatre after first lady Melania Trump, now a Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill to change the name of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to … » Read

Wallis Annenberg, an ardent and generous philanthropist whose extensive donations over many years transformed the American art scene, died July 28 at her home in Los Angeles from complications related to lung cancer. “Wallis transitioned … » Read

Pro-Palestinian activists disrupted the official opening of the 105th Salzburg Festival on Saturday. Banners were unfurled saying “Stop the Genocide,” “Your Silence Will Haunt You,” “Free Gaza Now,” and … » Read

CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, CA.—This seaside village on the southern edge of the Monterey Peninsula is known for its storybook cottages, white-sand beaches, mercurial coastal haze—and lack of street addresses. Originally established as an … » Read

The Cooper International Competition for Piano has awarded first place and a prize of $20,000 to Anna Avramidou. Second place was a tie between Anwen Deng and Sawako Harada. The competition, which takes place on the campus of Oberlin College and … » Read

The Leonard Bernstein family has put out a statement expressing their deep sense of loss at the death on July 22 of Alexander Bernstein, Leonard and Felicia’s son and second child. “Father of Anya, brother of Nina and Jamie, devoted … » Read