The Last Repair Shop, a new 39-minute documentary by co-directors Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot that has just been released on YouTube, chronicles how a small group of craftsmen, working in an old warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, maintains … » Read

A percussionist in the Allentown (PA) Symphony is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will support his claim that he cannot be forced to join the American Federation of Musicians. Glen Wilkofsky maintains that he has a constitutionally guaranteed … » Read

LONDON—With the chilly evenings drawing in, this November 6 concert at Wigmore Hall was appropriately winter-themed. Not only that, a savvy blend of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century music proved an opportunity for a roster of composers from … » Read

On Nov. 5 in Cape Town, South Africa, the 30 th -anniversary edition of Operalia awarded prizes in a number of categories. The competition was founded three decades ago by Plácido Domingo to encourage the development of promising singers … » Read

The existence of slavery in the U.S. for almost 250 years remains a fraught presence in our national psyche, so the October 2019 news that the 2020 Spoleto Festival USA would present Omar , a new opera based on the autobiography of Omar Ibn Said … » Read

Opera, the most-costly of the performing arts, is facing an existential crisis that is “either a problem or an opportunity,” suggests David Devan, general director and president of Opera Philadelphia, in an interview with PBS’s … » Read

The Manhattan School of Music has partnered with Con Edison to produce a dramatic drop in its energy consumption. "We're going down over 700,000 kilowatt hours per year throughout this building, which equates to about $140,000 annually," … » Read

Stephen Sondheim developed a healthy attitude toward failure near the end of his life: “In ten years they’ll revive it in London and it will be hailed as a masterpiece.” So he told Nathan Lane when their rewrite of The Frogs was … » Read

LONDON--This “opera project” by Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic has crisscrossed Europe since its first appearance in Munich three years ago. The incarnation that reached London on November 3, courtesy of English National … » Read

The English National Ballet has selected Maria Seletskaja as its new music director. She succeeds Gavin Sutherland, who held the position for 15 years and will continue as the company’s principal guest conductor. The 39-year-old Seletskaja, … » Read