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

The Robert McDuffie Center for Strings in Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music in Macon, Georgia, is welcoming back two cellists as new members of its faculty. Next autumn, Sihao He, who received an undergraduate degree from the … » Read

For the past three months, the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) have been performing without a contract. As the ensemble’s departure date of March 9 for a pair of four-day residencies in Paris and Hamburg looms, negotiations … » Read