About 15 of Philadelphia’s major arts and cultural institutions may receive an unexpected financial windfall if the City Council approves recent allocations voted on by its appropriations committee. Among the groups slated to receive … » Read

Michael Haefliger will step down as executive and artistic director of Switzerland’s Lucerne Festival, one of the most important in Europe, at the close of the 2025 season. “Naturally, this decision was not easy for me” he … » Read

The Detroit Opera has announced a new music director, its first since the late David DiChiera, company founder and artistic director, retired in 2016. (DiChiera died in 2018.) He is Mexican-born Roberto Kalb, Detroit resident and onetime … » Read

PARIS & VERSAILLES, FRANCE—This month the French capital has showcased early opera, with new productions of stage works by both Gluck (1714-87), the Austrian composer who spearheaded the post-Baroque transition towards classicism, and … » Read

Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY), a new agency launched by the State, has begun distributing $43 mn in $1,000 monthly payments for 18 months to 2,400 artists and culture makers throughout New York State through the Guaranteed Income for Artists … » Read

If Sondra Radvanovsky’s ambitious Carnegie Hall recital on November 15 couldn’t compete with the fictional Mawrdew Czgowchwz’s (pronounced Mardu Gorgeous), it wasn’t for lack of trying. The heroine of James McCourt’s … » Read

Geoffrey and Sarah Gund have made a $5mn endowment gift to the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO). Geoffrey Gund is the former president of the George Gund Foundation, which funds mostly Cleveland and northeast Ohio non-profits. The … » Read

American composer Ned Rorem, known almost as well for his diaries as for his 500 art songs, died this morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 99. Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for his Air Music , an orchestral suite, he was highly regarded … » Read

That was quick. Barely a month ago, Fort Worth Opera (FWO) announced that its third general director in five years, Afton Battle, had resigned . One former trustee has been quoted as saying she was too much of an activist (Battle is Black). Not … » Read

The annual Concours de Genève concluded events in composition and piano on October 26 and November 3, respectively, at the Geneva Conservatory in Switzerland. Of the composers, who were tasked with pieces for chamber vocal ensemble, … » Read