Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s veto of a $32 million grant program of the state’s Division of Arts and Culture is forcing the state’s arts organizations to think outside the box as they seek to recoup the lost public funding. … » Read

The Philadelphia Orchestra has added four new musicians to its ranks. Among them is assistant double bassist Tobias Vigneau, arriving just months after completing his Bachelor of Music degree at the Curtis Institute of Music. He succeeds Joseph … » Read

HONG KONG—To correct any misnomers, when the  Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra hired 24-year-old conductor Tarmo Peltokoski in July to succeed Music Director Jaap van Zweden, it did not anoint the youngest-ever music director in the … » Read

Grand opera simply doesn’t get any grander than Le prophète . The five-act Giacomo Meyerbeer/Eugène Scribe work offers an epic treatment of the 16th-century conflict between the Catholic Church and the radical Protestant … » Read

The San Francisco Symphony, facing financial and artistic leadership hurdles, also seems to be undergoing a fair amount churn within its ranks. At the end of the season the orchestra saw five players representing 180 years of experience retire; … » Read

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 inspired Keri-Lynn Wilson, the Canadian-Ukrainian conductor, and her husband, Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, to set about creating the well-publicized Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra. … » Read

John Mangum, executive director and CEO of the Houston Symphony since 2018, is to be the new general director, president & CEO of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, effective in the fall. He succeeds Anthony Freud, who announced last September that … » Read

Soprano Anna Netrebko is scheduled to give a recital at the Palm Beach Opera for its gala on Feb. 3 in what would be her first U.S. appearance in six years. Considered the world’s top soprano, Netrebko was dropped by the Metropolitan Opera … » Read

BAYREUTH—The annual Wagner festival could have used a hit this summer. In its first two post-lockdown seasons, in 2022, the festival struck out with a Ring cycle that reduced Wagner’s epic to a Netflix-style dysfunctional family drama … » Read

CHICAGO—Maybe it was the aftereffect of spending Friday afternoon in front of TV watching the Olympic Games opening ceremonies with all those spectacular overhead shots of Paris. Maybe it was seeing those boatloads of athletes representing … » Read