Trump is wasting no time in taking over the Kennedy Center, as threatened . In addition to firing Chairman David M. Rubenstein, who has given $111 million to the Center over time, and installing himself in his place, Trump has removed 18 from the … » Read

At the curtain call for Heartbeat Opera’s February 6 Salome , Executive Director Christian De Gré Cardénas made a pitch for donations while assuring that the company continued to be in good financial health. In the context of … » Read

LONDON—Antonio Pappano has focused his opening season as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra on British music, but this February 6 concert at the Barbican Centre paid equal homage to works from across the Atlantic, an apt … » Read

The Twiolins , the German violin duo that for 15 years comprised siblings Marie-Luise and Christoph Dingler, has announced that Belarusian violinist Marta Danilkovich [right] will succeed Christoph, who is stepping aside to reduce his travel and … » Read

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, absent from the Cleveland Orchestra’s podium for most of the fall season, is returning sooner than anticipated. He will conduct a program featuring Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No., with … » Read

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)—President Donald Trump says he is firing members of the board of trustees for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and naming himself chairman. He also indicated that he would be dictating programming at … » Read

NEW YORK--The 1714 Strad from which the New England Conservatory (NEC) hoped to get up to $18 million at auction has sold for $11.3  million. Monies will go toward scholarship aid. The auction was first announced two months ago. The late … » Read

The leadership triumvirate of the Long Beach Opera is not quite sure who first came up with the idea of a season devoted entirely to the work of the late Pauline Oliveros, a pioneering composer of electronic music. “It’s like it came … » Read

From July 11 to August 17, 2025, the Glimmerglass Festival will celebrate its 50 th anniversary with programs inspired by the theme "The Art of Making Art." The schedule features a July 31 concert performance by Broadway legend Bernadette Peters; … » Read

The last week of January several hundred people attended a  concert by Syria’s national symphony orchestra at the Damascus opera house, the first such event since the Dec. 8 ouster of Bashar al-Assad. "We are here and able to produce … » Read