Plans to cut £7mn from Creative Scotland’s budget have been shelved in response to the public outcry: more than 15,000 people signed a petition organized by Campaign for the Arts against the cut. The policy reversal means that the … » Read

Johann Sebastian Bach was quite the family man, siring 20 children with his two wives, and seeing ten of them reach adulthood. Intrigued by the reasons for the composer’s last-minute creation of his famous Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf , the … » Read

The state of Wisconsin spends 14 cents per capita on arts and culture—with Georgia, the lowest of any state in the union. At the same time, Wisconsin arts and cultural production is estimated to add about 2.8 percent—$9.6 … » Read

SAN PEDRO, California—Here we are a couple months into 2023 and the performing arts are still sorting out the casualties of the pandemic, making up for lost time. Case in point, one of many: the delayed world premiere of Kate Soper’s … » Read

The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust has pledged $2.28M to support full tuition scholarships for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) Posse Arts Program. Founded in 2021, the three-partner program (with Bard College … » Read

Since the decision by Arts Council England (ACE) last November to take a dull meat ax to funding for several of the nation’s most important opera companies, lovers of the art form can be forgiven if they feel as if, in the words of The … » Read

Opéra de Lausanne has appointed Claude Cortese , current artistic director at Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, to be its next director as of July 1, 2024. He succeeds Eric Vigié, who will have been in the job 20 years. A … » Read

LONDON—Richard Jones’s recent production of The Valkyrie, part of an English National Opera Ring Cycle once destined for the Met, was a lackluster affair: visually spartan and conceptually opaque. Anyone hoping that The Rhinegold , … » Read

On a crowded stage at David Geffen Hall, on a day when banks, schools, and businesses were closed to honor the nation’s famous presidents, the New York Philharmonic introduced its next music and artistic director, Gustavo Dudamel. He … » Read

In preparation for his coronation on May 6, 2023, King Charles III has personally commissioned 12 new works—six for orchestra, five for chorus, and one for organ—that showcase musical talent from throughout the U.K. and the … » Read